Re: [lir-wg] IPv6 assignments to RIPE itself
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:58:25 +0100 (CET)
Hello!
Gert Doering wrote:
[...]
> The other point is that one of the main arguments in that RFC is "if a
> customer changes ISPs, they will always get the same size prefix (a /48)",
> which is just not working if customers can very liberally get more than
> a /48 to account for "another-level-down end sites". So we're back to
> the address space haggling days, just argueing about the number of /48s
> instead the number of single IPs.
[...]
A /48 isn't the same as an v4-IP. Using a /48, one has 65536 different /64-IPs
which is really enough for most applications. Less people will request more
than one /48 this way and it is and should be the job of the LIR to filter
these who want as many IPs as possible just for fun.
MfG / Regards,
S.Willing
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