Le Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:43:18PM +0300, Pekka Savola a ecrit:
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Xavier Henner wrote:
If you *do* have 200 IPv6 customers *today* (those that pay for the service, not necessarily IPv6 service, but something), I'd surely consider one a real player here.
But an issue is about DSL operators with 1,000,000 IPv4 customers beginning to introduce IPv6 services..
I don't see any issue with DSL operators. Can you explain it ?
With HD ratio of 80%, the operator would require a /23.
and ? There is enough adress space for that. DSL lines will be used for home networks, and home networks are one of the reasons for the /48. If an ISP has 1 million custommers, you give it enough adress space for static allocation (DSL is *not really* dial up) The /23 seems to be *big* but it's smaller than a /8 in IPv4 Today, in France, the 2 larger networks, in term of adress space must be Renater (the local NREN, with a lot of universities and their empty /16) and France Telecom, the historical telco, which is the biggest ISP too. With IPv6, the first will just have the same size as today. (And honestly, they could have a /20) Renater will have the size of a small ISP (I don't see how they can use more than a /32 : their "customers" can't have another transit provider and the campus networks for students are just tolerated) -- Xavier Henner Responsable de l'exp�rimentation IPv6 Nerim -- Fournisseur d'acc�s � Internet URL: <http://www.nerim.net/>