[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Re: [ipv6-wg at localhost] Re: What is a site?

Hi,

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:37:19AM +0200, Erics wrote:
> Lets view a concrete example :
> A customer of us, a shipping company has ten brances at ten different
> locations. And he is running a seperated network behind our acces router on each loctaion.
> 
> >From our point of view and understanding the RFC3177 each location is a site
> and we assign a /XX to each branch.
> 
> Do you agree on this, or are there different opinions ?

Customers with many offices are certainly "grey area".

We tend to view it that way:

 - if the offices are all interconnected internally, and there's one 
   link from "the customer network" to us, it's *one* site (/48)

 - if each office has their own link into our network, and especially to
   different POPs (-> ISP aggregation comes into play), each office is
   considered a site on its own, and gets its own /48.

With a /48, one might argue that this is wastive - maybe it is.  If we
go for /56s, this will ease up the argument "what is a site", as we can
have so much more sites...

Gert Doering
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