[address-policy-wg] Re: /48 or /56 to 'home' end-sites?
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Tim Chown
tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Dec 14 13:26:03 CET 2005
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 07:54:13PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > /56's are most likely enough for most 'home end-site'. A single /56 > provides 2^(64-56 = 8) = 256 /64's. > > ... > > For home end-sites I believe that a /48 really is way too much. > > ... > > One of the reasons for saying 'all endsites a /48' was that all ISP's > would give everybody a /48, renumbering would then not involve > replanning onces network because one didn't get enough IP space. > Creating a difference for home and work sites could only cause a problem > when a work site becomes a home site, but I don't see that happening. > Home to work, in case that happens, would get more address space at that > point, thus that is not an issue either (except for the renumbering but > let's not think about that, that is a different ballpark ;) > > Is it maybe time to look at this /48 policy and change it in the > direction of the above that home endsites get a /56 instead of a full > blown /48 which they will never use. Or do people think that it is fine > and that we should not bother here at all? So I guess people should comment on Thomas' IETF I-D... I was just surprised that policy seemed to adversely affect the 'ease of deployment' of a broker service. I personally would be fine with a /56 for home use. I do think it's important that ISPs have a common reference for sizes to allocate, though inevitably there will be different offerings (ISPs will look for ways to charge more, as they do by 'selling' IPv4 addresses today). -- Tim/::1
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