Hi,
> > Interesting. We successfully argued that a /48 was insufficient to avoid a
> > fragmented internal allocation strategy, and I believe Cambridge have
> > subsequently done the same - both of us now have /44s, but perhaps we
> > should have pushed for more :-)
>
> Should 64,000 subnets (a /48) or 1,0000,000 subnets (a /44) not be enough :), the approach taken by the University of New Hampshire appears to be to become a Local Internet Registry (LIR) in its own right.
its not whether there are enough addresses in a /48 - its more of a case that as an ISP or
network provider you are supposed to hand out /48 to the sites... this is part of
RFC 3177 and covered in RFC 4779 - where prefix delegation used to drive DHCP-PD to
customer end points.... so, wehre we have end clients routing their own IPv6 for
research etc, we should be giving them /48 for the purpose. as we only HAVE a /48 then that
makes it quite difficult for us to do! :-)
I did raise this early on, the HE sites really should be getting /44's or higher.
alan
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