I have a /48 at home, on a retail ISP, right now. I know, one data point does not a trend make, but it is a proof by example that some ISP is doing that.
Andrew On 15/11/2012, at 6:27 AM, Randy Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have their been any ISPs that have come forward to discuss their consumer > IPv6 allocation plans? I don't think we should wrap ourselves around a model > that says, "yeah, we need multiple /64s for consumers because that's the way > a particular protocol works (SLAAC). Maybe we need another method. One /64 > for a home network seems like overkill regarding address space utilization -- > A /32 would be overkill. I know some folks think we have more address space > than we'll ever use, but gee…. > > Randy > > > On Nov 14, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: > >> On Nov 14, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On 14/11/2012 02:34, Randy Turner wrote: >>>> I was thinking that, in an effort to reduce scope to something we can deal >>>> with for now, that a /64 would be big enough >>> >>> It simply isn't, because it doesn't allow subnetting in the home/car/small >>> office or whatever. >> >> I don't see the point in working on the /64 case—if that's all we're trying >> to accomplish, we've already accomplished it. The interesting work Homenet >> is doing is in fact trying to solve the prefix distribution and automatic >> setup problem. It's true that this is a hard problem. It's also true >> that if we don't specify a solution, people will attempt to solve it in >> their own ways. And if they do that, we will wind up in the situation that >> Jim found himself in with his broken box with its own built-in DHCP server. >> >> BTW, a little more on that topic: the reason that two DHCP servers on the >> same wire broke Jim's network in a flaky way is that IPv4 doesn't handle the >> multi-homing case. IPv6 deliberately places the multi-homing case >> in-scope. This creates a bit of a problem for legacy apps that do not >> support multi-homing, but it also creates the winning situation that if one >> device is advertising a provisioning domain that doesn't work, applications >> that do correctly handle multi-homing will simply use a different >> provisioning domain. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> homenet mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet >> > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
