SV: SV: how 200 /48's fails the job [Re: [address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria]

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Fra: address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net] På vegne av Jon Lawrence

>While I understand and accept your argument here, whether we'd ever run out >of 
>address space imho has nothing to do with /48's. How many /32's have we got 
>to play with ( 536870912 per /3 by my calculations) OK, that's still a big 
>number. But if we allow everyone who wants to multihome a /32, there is the 
>possibility that we could run out - not in the near future that's for sure.

FYI: There are LIRs with larger prefixes than /32 (/19, /20, /23++) because they argued that 65536 /48s wasn't enough. Expect more of these larger allocations.

Cheers,

Joergen Hovland ENK