IPv6 and CDN's

Mon Nov 29 18:33:32 UTC 2021

> On Nov 28, 2021, at 23:19 , Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:
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> On 11/29/21 00:41, scott wrote:
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>> Side note: I recently tried to get /48 per customer with ARIN on repeated emails and they refused.  We were already given an IPv6 block a while back.  I told them I wanted to expand it so I could give out a /48 per customer and that we had more than 65535 customers, which is the block we got; 65535 /48s.  I didn't even account for our needs.
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>> Without arguing the reasons, we will have to hand out /56s, rather than /48s because of this.  So, it's not all /48-unicorns, puppies and rainbows.
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> We have two types of customers - that that get assigned a /48, and those that get assigned a /56.
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> Mark.

So why be stingy to the second class? Why not just assign everyone a /48?

Owen