On 11. 12. 23 08:49, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) via ipv6-wg wrote:
A colleague of mine showed me https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET6-2630-2 <https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET6-2630-2>, i.e., a /16 allocated by ARIN to Capital One (AFAIK a US bank).
Of course, this may be a tool bug, or a human encoding mistake, else I will start to fear an IPv6 addresses exhaustion in the future (only 2**13 of /16 out of 2000::/3).
We just had this discussion at APWG session at RIPE87 meeting in Roma - we could start doing allocations just on the nibble boundaries, therefore if they can prove that they have 512 million *connected* customers to which they plan to delegate a prefix of /48 - then they can have /16 :) But I doubt that a bank will ever have that number of connected customers (not just customers with the bank account ;) )... Cheers, Jan