[ipv6-wg] Allocating a /16 to a large enterprise ?

Mon Dec 11 08:55:55 CET 2023

> On 11 Dec 2023, at 08:49, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) via ipv6-wg <ipv6-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> [This is about ARIN, but curious to see if anybody has any insight...]
>  A colleague of mine showed me 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).
>  If anyone has any insight, then I will welcome this insight in this specific case.

See the long thread on IETF v6ops:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/v6ops/ThaSy_hNlx1GP59EFAJ9NkBXP5A/

Noting, as I did there, the US DoD got a /13 (14x /22) around 2008.... so a /16 is peanuts ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen