On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 14:41:13 +0100, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
That's something we are trying to get a feeling for at the moment. My approach for _now_ is to treat a University's (extended) LAN as one site (i.e. lives within 1 /48), and the hostels and remote customers' (students and faculty) networks as a site (/48 typically or /64 in special circumstances) each.
You mean each "remote customers' network" will get its own /48, right? Does it matter how long the fibers are (or, does "remote" matter)? If a university is spread around a region, but is one administrative entity ("""site""" :-), it will use one /48 for its network. That network may stretch to remote faculties and buildings and to student dormitories. Students and employees get one /64. That's sounds like a reasonable approach too.
As regards the address distribution procedures I still maintain that there is no technical or logical difference between a university's "customer" which happens to be staff or student as compared to a "regular" customer serviced by a "commercial" ISP.
So they should all get a /48? Then the university is assigning /48s and is an ISP. That's another reasonable approach. rvdp