In message <2D09D61DDFA73D4C884805CC7865E6113025C902@GAALPA1MSGUSR9L.ITServices
.sbc.com>, "STARK, BARBARA H" writes:
> > If your ISP only supplies a /64 then switch ISP.  Truly this is the 
> > only way to stop such stupidity.  If they only supply a /64 via 6rd
> > run away from them because they are incompentent.  It is not rocket
> > science to run multiple 6rd domains.
> > 
> > IPv6 prefixes are not scarse.  They are less than $0.03/annum per /48 
> > to ISPs from RIRs.
> 
> Switching ISPs is not an option at this time. This is the only provider 
> who offers something close to 30Mbps at a consumer-friendly price. I'm 
> not going to move, either. In the world of trade-offs and doing what's 
> right for me, the /64 is among the least of my concerns. For IETF homenet 
> to attempt to influence CE router vendors to force me to care, by 
> recommending they not provide me with options that will meet my 
> simplistic-consumer wants, strikes me as not a very nice thing to do. But 
> in my experience, the CE router vendors tend to give consumers like me 
> the options we want, no matter what the IETF recommends. I've just found 
> that if the IETF can be convinced to describe the best way to do 
> non-optimal options, rather than simply recommending against them, then 
> consumers benefit.
> Barbara

Then require that the homenet router be able to be turned to bridge
mode and be done with it.

All the ISP's the I am aware of that current only supply /64's have
stated that they intend to offer larger prefixes.  Most that are
doing it are because of broken CPE equipment not because they think
it is a good thing to do.

There is no real reasons for ISP's to only do /64s except spite the
customer.  The difference in costs from the RIRs for the bigger
address space is chump change even for developing states.  All their
equipment will support > /64 because the big players want to support
that.

Mark
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Mark Andrews, ISC
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: [email protected]
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