> On Jul 29, 2021, at 16:06, Joe Maimon <[email protected]> wrote:
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> [email protected] wrote:
>> On Monday, 19 July, 2021 14:04, "Stephen Satchell" <[email protected]> said:
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>>> The allocation of IPv6 space with prefixes shorter than /64 is indeed a
>>> consideration for bigger administrative domains like country
>>> governments, but on the other end, SOHO customers would be happy with
>>> /96, /104 or even /112 allocations if they could get them. (Just how
>>> many light bulbs, fridges, toasters, doorbells, phones, &c does SOHOs
>>> have?) I would *not* like to see "us" make the same mistake with IPv6
>>> that was made with IPv4, handing out large blocks of space like so many
>>> pieces of M&M or Skittles candy.
>> Nay, nay, and thrice nay. Don't think in terms of addresses for IPv6, think
>> in terms of subnets. I can't stress this enough, it's the big v4 to v6
>> paradigm shift - don't think about "how many hosts on this net", think about
>> "how many nets".
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> Think of how many large ISP's a /3 of ipv6 effectively holds, assuming that
> /48 per customer is the norm, and /24 up to /12 assignments for those ISP's
> is also.
>
> In those terms IPv6 isnt that much bigger.
I haven’t seen evidence that any RIR has allocated an entire /12 to an ISP.
Even a large one.
