https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24294

Carl Austin Bennett <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Carl Austin Bennett <[email protected]> 2011-09-09 
00:04:38 UTC ---
I'd think that /64 is rather common due to rfc4291 [[IPv6
address#Stateless_address_autoconfiguration]] by which any individual router is
given a /64 and the individual clients suffix this with a 64-bit extended MAC
address or a random suffix.

I've only seen a /128 once; the lowest-level of "anonymous" tunnel on gogo6
acts as a dynamic IP address for one Windows PC and semi-randomly allocates a
different /128 from [2001:5c0:1000:a]/64 each time the PC re-connects to the
network. Even there, all of their other "tunnel" offerings are at least a
::/64; I believe ::/64 as the smallest allocation is also true of Hurricane
Electric. For that matter, my co-lo provider will be offering a ::/64 for my
three servers.

Oh, drats, that only leaves me with 2^64 - 3 free addresses? What if I run out?
If my upstream provider only has [2605:ac00]/32 they might've assigned all four
billion ::/64's by the time that happens, then I'm really in trouble!

In any case, we should expect many (or even the majority) of blocks to be
rangeblocks (with /64 the smallest viable) unless we're dealing with the most
casual of vandalism from someone who has no idea how either wiki or IPv6 works.

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