[AusNOG] Final /8 allocated to APNIC from IANA (103/8)

[Matt Shadbolt]

Whats the actual rate of allocation other than the /8s?

ie, how long untill all the IPs in these five /8's are gone? Google-foo
isn't giving me anything

Matt

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Moyle-Croft
<mmc at internode.com.au>wrote:

>
>  On 04/02/2011, at 10:38 AM, Damien Morris wrote:
>
>  On 4/02/11 11:02 AM, "Luke Iggleden" <luke at sisgroup.com.au> wrote:
>
> Plenty of v6 space though guys..
>
>
>  340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938
>
> septillion, 463 sextillion, 463 quintillion, 374 quadrillion, 607
>
> trillion, 431 billion, 768 million, 211 thousand and 456
>
>
>
> How many useable
>
>
> Well, how many allocatable really.
>
>  Once you start going /64 for each LAN segment, /48 for each end site, the
> first 4 nibbles for IANA, minimum allocation for an ISP like org is a /32,
> then you've carved it up quite a lot already.  Then you've got IETF
> "reserving space" (oh no, not Class E again) (
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space/ipv6-address-space.xml
> ).
>
>  In the name of keeping the IPv6 routing table small, a lot of large
> organisation are getting big chunks of space.  This seems fine now (Class A
> seemed fine at one point), but maybe it's not so good long term.
>
>  US Mil has a /13.   /20 and similar allocations (eg. Softbank BB in
> Japan) aren't uncommon.   A lot of places with /32s are going to find that,
> heck, it's quite hard to keep within a /32.
>
>  There's a proposal on sig-policy in APNIC to increase the allocations to
> ISPs.  (Which I support as we've found a /32 doesn't work so well for us at
> the 250-300k customer kind of size).
>
>  I'm not saying we need to be obsessive as we've become with IPv4,
> however, we do need be mindful of the IPv4 experience that whilst it seems
> big and plentiful today, that maybe we could be a bit more careful now and
> let our children's children not have to go through this again.
>
>  Some of the decisions are too late to turn around, but reducing the
> default end site size to /56 from /48 would give 8 bits back to being with.
>
>  (Waits for the howling that comes from saying heretical things, whilst
> whistling "history never repeats, I tell myself before I goto sleep").
>
>  MMC
>
>
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