On Oct 11, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Jeroen Massar <jer...@unfix.org> wrote:
> On 2012-10-11 23:02 , Jo Rhett wrote:
>> I've finally convinced $DAYJOB to deploy IPv6. Justification for the
>> IP space is easy, however the truth is that a /64 is more than we
>> need in all locations. However the last I heard was that you can't
>> effectively announce anything smaller than a /48. Is this still
>> true?
>>
>> Is this likely to change in the immediate future, or do I need to ask
>> for a /44?
>
> A /64 is for a single link (broadcast domain, though with IPv6 multicast
> domain is more appropriate).
>
> A /48 (or /56 for end-users for some of the RIRs) is for a single
> end-site ("a different administrative domain and/or a different physical
> location").
>
> If you thus have 5 end-sites, you should have room for 5 /48s and thus a
> /47 is what you can justify.
>
Couple of errors there, Jeroen…
1. 5 /48s is at least a /45, not a /47 which is only 2 /48s.
2. Joe lives in the ARIN region where allocations and assignments are
done on nibble boundaries, so his /45 would be rounded up to
a /44 (as would a /47) anyway.
Owen
