Hi Ted, > On Jun 5, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Sander Steffann <[email protected]> wrote: >> So they playing field is mixed. Some do /56, but the major players do (or >> will do) /48. > > Sure, but you're just confirming my point that if a provider wants to do > semantic prefixes, they can get enough bits to do them by allocating a /56 to > customers instead of a /48. The point is not to catalog the various choices > providers have made, but simply to point out that "bit scarcity" is not a > good argument to use against semantic prefixes. If they are a bad idea, > which they may well be, it is for some other reason.
Keep in mind that RIRs won't give you extra address space though. If you assign /56s to your users then that is what the RIR need-base calculations are based on (according to current policy). Cheers, Sander -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
