[AusNOG] another ipv6 Q

[Jeroen Massar]

On 2014-07-03 02:12, Joseph Goldman wrote:
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>  My main question for confirmation was, that I should perhaps request a
> larger block from APNIC to then split that into /32's to hand out to my
> multiple POP's (say a /30 or /28 or something).

Even if you have a /28 you are not supposed to split it up either, it is
called Provider Aggregated (PA) for a reason.

While most filters will allow it, folks will just special case you as a
/28, as that is what it is, nothing else. This happened to the US DOD as
an extreme example (they forced ARIN to give them a IPv6 /13 worth of
14x /22s, as nothing else sits there, it is a really nice single /13
though).

Take a small guess why folks like Google requested space from each RIR...

Also, can you justify a /28 of address space? As in, will you ever have
so many customer sites that you can fill that up, even remotely?

> Luckily I currently have
> a lot of IPv4 so requesting more won't cost more, just trying to
> determine best way forward for the company with an IPv6 deployment,
> across cities/states/countries.

If you have enough customers to fully fill a /32, then your network will
be large enough to accept traffic for the aggregate in multiple
locations and backhaul that traffic internally...

Greets,
 Jeroen