[ipv6-wg] Allocating a /16 to a large enterprise ?

Wow, it is crazy to me that a company(not a network operator even) can get such a huge address space.

Especially they have so many /19, /24 prefixes already. 

AFAIK, a TOP 3 Network operator serving more than 1B subscribers may only have a /18 or /17 IPv6 prefix. 
What kind of company can have more customers then 1B? Interesting.

Thanks,
C



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From: ipv6-wg <ipv6-wg-bounces at ripe.net> On Behalf Of Peter Hessler
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2023 10:24 AM
To: ipv6-wg at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [ipv6-wg] Allocating a /16 to a large enterprise ?

On 2023 Dec 11 (Mon) at 07:49:37 +0000 (+0000), Eric Vyncke (evyncke) via ipv6-wg wrote:
:[This is about ARIN, but curious to see if anybody has any insight...]
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:A colleague of mine showed me https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET6-2630-2, i.e., a /16 allocated by ARIN to Capital One (AFAIK a US bank).
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:Of course, this may be a tool bug, or a human encoding mistake, else I will start to fear an IPv6 addresses exhaustion in the future (only 2**13 of /16 out of 2000::/3).
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:If anyone has any insight, then I will welcome this insight in this specific case.
:
:Regards
:
:-éric
:

Interestingly, they already had a /48 and a /36 allocation before receving this /16.

https://bgp.tools/rir-owner/ARIN-CAPITA-120



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