I've met one that will allocate more /48s if you ask, and have met a DHCPv6
server implementation that would give you a new prefix if you generated a
new client ID.  So, yes, they easily can exist and in at least one case do.


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Tim Chown <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 11 Mar 2013, at 12:45, Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:31 AM, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> That doesn't give the option to the server, though... the client has to
> ask for one or the other.
> >
> > What I would suggest is that if the client doesn't get a big enough
> allocation, it request an additional allocation, rather than that it try to
> anticipate what the server will return and prepare for the worst.
>
> I agree with Ran's original comments.  These are reinforced in the
> candidate -08 text.
>
> Are there IPv6 ISPs out there who would allocate an additional (say) /60
> if the CER requested an additional prefix?  Would it not be simpler to
> state that the prefix in use in the homenet from any ISP should be
> contiguous, and sufficient in size for the homenet's requirement, as per
> 6177 (which recommends "significantly more than a single /64"?)
>
> Tim
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