It’s entirely likely that someone attempted to get a /31 from ARIN recently and they most definitely would have been smacked down, but not because they couldn’t get more than a /32. ARIN will not issue a /31 under current policy, but if you need more than ~48,000 end-sites, you easily qualify for a /28. Owen On Oct 9, 2014, at 7:47 AM, Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au> wrote:
On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 10:22 -0400, Daniel Corbe wrote:
Has anyone successfully gotten a RIR to assign anything bigger than a /32? I seem to recall in recent history someone tried to obtain a /31 through ARIN and got smacked down.
Legend has it that the US DOD applied for a /8 - and got smacked down :-)
Even if you're assigning a /56 to every end user, that's still on the order of 16 million allocations.
If, as you should be, you are assigning /48s, it's only 65536. Not that big. That's why it's the *minimum* allocation. Larger allocations are possible and I suspect quite common.
Regards, K.
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