[AusNOG] RFC7278 - "Extending an IPv6 /64 Prefix from a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Mobile Interface to a LAN Link"

[Joseph Goldman]

Hi Mark,

  Going a bit off-topic, towards IPv6 in general as I'm still catching 
up on the standards of use for IPv6, but I am yet to understand the 
reason for recommendations to give such large blocks to customers?

  You talk about a /64 being handed out to customers, even this I found 
exceptionally large for a home, which even with smart devices becoming 
the norm would you say its likely to reach 100 needed IP's? let alone 
thousands?

  You go on to say other RFC's are even trying to recommend /56's, or 
even /48 to be better by your own personal opinion. Why so large? Why 
not /96's or even smaller?

  I'm in no way knocking the idea, I am genuinely curious as to the 
reasons behind the recommendations.

Thanks in advance!
Joe

On 02/07/14 21:14, Mark ZZZ Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following recently published RFC might be of interest to people on this list.
>
> RFC7278 - "Extending an IPv6 /64 Prefix from a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Mobile Interface to a LAN Link"
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7278
>
> Earlier versions of the 3GPP standards (i.e., basically mobile phone data standards) didn't recognise or realise that smartphones would also be able to temporarily become IP routers/Wifi hotspots, and therefore didn't specify DHCPv6-PD. This RFC describes how to take a /64 from the phone to carrier link and use it/share it with the phone's Wifi LAN interface when the phone is acting as an IPv6 router. It may seem a bit obscure, however it provides some examples of how IPv6's capabilities can be used to novelly overcome this limitation. It certainly isn't a recommendation to give a customer a single /64 rather than many of them (i.e., as per RFC6177, a /56, or better IMO, a /48 as per the considerations in RFC3177), but it does show how that can be worked around with some limitations.
>
> Regards,
> Mark.
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