Latif LADID ("The New Internet based on IPv6") wrote:
Joeren,
To be fair, start your rant also about those that got /13 and those that got /19 :-)
I've not seen a /13 in the routing tables nor in the allocation tables yet. Where did this occur? A /13 would be 34.359.738.368 /48's, I don't know of any ISP currently actively providing residential access in all countries on this planet and then about 5 of those planets. The /19's you mention are for France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, both clearly where able to justify to the RIR that they needed 536.870.912 /48's, based on HD ratio and home countries respectively having 64 and 83 million inhabitants with most likely added plan of providing the rest of Europe with connectivity too, is not too far fetched. With only the home countries in mind a /21 would have sufficed, but that doesn't cover the HD ratio. Now if there was a /56 policy for home-end-users then it would surely have been way too much, but with the current HD policy it isn't. There are several other such "large" prefixes, but they all are allocated to ISP's who have been around for a long time and are providing connectivity to a large amount of users in a similar way as the above two ISP's. But a single /32 for a ~5 person organization quickly grabbing it before their own PI policy becomes in effect is a bit strange don't you think. And no "we have 3 offices and a few big projects" is far from correct justification. As such, sneaking in a /32 from under their own policies is a waste of address space. Greets, Jeroen