[address-policy-wg] 2006-02 Last Call for Comments (IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy)

> So if an organisation planned to connect eight internal sites 
> through a single external connection they should receive a 
> /32 and not a /45 or /44?

I believe that they should receive 8 /48s from their ISP. I also think
that it would be beneficial to both ISP and customer to assign an
aggregatable block of 8. In future, those eight sites could end up with
separate Internet connections either through an architecture change or
through divestment. When a company sells a site, it is like a slow
motion version of mobile Internet.

But, since an organization with a single external connection is not an
ISP, they should not receive a /32. In general, /32s should be for
organizations with steadily growing networks and also a few critical
infrastructure types of organization which needs the operational
characteristics of an ISP allocation.

--Michael Dillon