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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 19:17:48 +0200
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
To: Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl
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Subject: Re: (ngtrans) Fw: [apnic-announce] IPv6 Policy Document Revision
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007071856100.241-100000@spock.ncc-1701.surfnet.nl>; from Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:04:47PM +0200

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:04:47PM +0200, Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Robert Elz wrote:
> 
> >| But that's where the /35 "pressure" applies because if (say) UKERNA wanted 
> >| to offer a /40 to each University
> > 
> > Why would i want to do that?   /48 to everyone is what should be offered.
> 
> A university might have a dialup service for its employees and students.
> I think they should get a /48 at home. So the university needs many /48s.
> With a /40 they can have no more than 256 students/employees :-)

Not necessarily.
They would be counted as part of the site, and get less than a /48.

However, assuming all of them are connected at the same time (!!!),
/48 would not be enough, and they'd need something bigger, maybe a /44.

Regards,
	-is

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