[AusNOG] IPv6 Addressing Schemes

[Mark Smith]

On Fri, 21 May 2010 02:29:28 +0800
Shane Short <shane at short.id.au> wrote:

> Howdy Guys,
> We've got our /32 from APNIC a while ago, I'm now finally looking to begin rolling this out across the network and to be honest, the sheer amount of space is doing my head in a little..
> I did a bit of a google around and I couldn't really find any 'best practice' for splitting up a subnet of this size..
> 
> How're people here picking which subnets to allocate customers? are you splitting it up into chunks of /48s,/56's and /64s and handing them out sequentially?
> 

The following RFC provides guidance, with examples for both Enterprise
and ISP networks - 

RFC5375 - "IPv6 Unicast Address Assignment Considerations"
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5375.txt

> Thanks,
> Shane
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