On 10/19/10, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > >> On 10/18/2010 1:20 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: >>> >>> I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need >>> /48s. No, I don't think "that makes all the address assignments the >>> same size" is a particularly relevant or convincing argument. >>> >>> We're doing /56 for residential users, and have no plans to change >>> this. >> >> +1 >> >> This not only makes pop assignments easier, it gives a much larger prefix >> rotation pool. Don't start the flame on rotating prefixes being evil. It's >> my implementation to at least give customers some chance at prefix >> privacy. >> > > What if your customers don't want prefix privacy and prefer, instead, to > have the option of accessing their resources remotely, setting up mobile-IP > home gateways, and any of the other functions that come from static > prefixes?
Why does it have to be one or the other? Isn't it possible to hand out a static assignment so that users can access their resources remotely as well as handing out a rotating prefix that changes every so often so that users have 'some chance at prefix privacy.' Lee
