[lir-wg] IPv6 assignments to RIPE itself

Hello!

Gert Doering wrote:
[...]
> The other point is that one of the main arguments in that RFC is "if a
> customer changes ISPs, they will always get the same size prefix (a /48)",
> which is just not working if customers can very liberally get more than
> a /48 to account for "another-level-down end sites".  So we're back to
> the address space haggling days, just argueing about the number of /48s
> instead the number of single IPs.
[...]

A /48 isn't the same as an v4-IP. Using a /48, one has 65536 different /64-IPs
which is really enough for most applications. Less people will request more
than one /48 this way and it is and should be the job of the LIR to filter
these who want as many IPs as possible just for fun.

MfG / Regards,
S.Willing

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