Re: Is a /48 still the smallest thing you can route independently?

--- jrhett@netconsonance.com wrote: From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> 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 /48 is 65536 /64s and a /44 is 16x65536 /64s. If you only need one subnet (1 subnet = 1 /64), why would you try to get 16x65536 subnets, rather than the 65536 you have in the /48? scott