On 2008-10-01 23:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In a typical IPv6 ADSL household landscape... >> >> An ADSL IPv6 operational deployment offers a /64 prefix at >> home. With that, I can't subnet _and_ use IPv6 stateless >> auto-configuration. > > In a typical IPv6 ADSL household landscape the ISP will assign > you a /48 with plenty of subnetting space. In some regions > there will be some ISPs who will only assign a /56 to residential > sites, but that still gives you a reasonable amount of subnetting > ability. Under RIR rules, an ISP can justify giving you a /48 > if you ask them for it.
Yes. We shouldn't forget that there are, objectively, 15 trillion /48s available, so whatever religious faith people may have in the HD ratio, there *are* plenty of /48s. The value of the HD ratio (and the RIR practices related to it) is to avoid wasteful use of the bits *before* the /48 boundary. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
