RE: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

["Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, michael.dillon () bt com wrote:

> > I don't have a problem with assigning customers a /64 of v6
> > space.
>
> Why so little? Normally customers get a /48 except for residential
> customers who can be given a /56 if you want to keep track of
> different block sizes. If ARIN will give you a /48 for every
> customer, then why be miserly with addresses?

I don't operate an ISP network (not anymore, anyway...).  My customers are 
departments within my organization, so a /64 per department/VLAN is more 
sane/reasonable for my environment.

jms