[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Re: What is a site?

Hi,

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:07:11PM +0100, Carlos Friacas wrote:
> >Is anybody envisioning home networks with more than 100 subnets?  What
> >are people doing there?
> 
> It is very obvious to me... every household has a network engineer that 
> likes (and needs) to play with routing...
> ;-)))

Are you the *typical* end customer...?  Neither you nor me are (and I
do well with about 4-5 network segments at home right now).

But as I can see so far, nobody is aiming for a "no more /48s!!" policy,
we're just discussiong potentially smaller assignments for the SOHO market.

[..]
> I've already expressed that the current /48 is a restriction -- i would be 
> more in favour of allowing LIRs to assing /56s, BUT allowing end-users to 
> grow upto /48s without any questions asked. :-)

I agree with that.  Getting a /48 instead of "the default size" should be 
fairly easy.

Gert Doering
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