On Nov 28, 2021, at 15:51 , Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
On 29 Nov 2021, at 09:41, scott <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
On 11/28/2021 9:47 AM, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
Why not properly assign /48s to customers and /40s to cities? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Side note: I recently tried to get /48 per customer with ARIN on repeated emails and they refused. We were already given an IPv6 block a while back. I told them I wanted to expand it so I could give out a /48 per customer and that we had more than 65535 customers, which is the block we got; 65535 /48s. I didn't even account for our needs.
Without arguing the reasons, we will have to hand out /56s, rather than /48s because of this. So, it's not all /48-unicorns, puppies and rainbows.
scott
Looks like a policy omission. You should be able to grow the per customer allocation up to /48 per customer. One shouldn’t be stuck with /56 because one made a bad choice of prefix size initially.
There is definitely something wrong here… Policy clearly states that you should be able to obtain an allocation large enough to provide /48s to all your customers if you so choose. In fact, it is generally quite generous beyond that point. Owen