Re:IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday January 04, 2016 @08:21AM
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No, it's a single network segment, not an end user. There unfortunately is quite a number of providers who seem to think that it should be, but that's braindead, exactly because it allows for only one network segment (if you want to use autoconfiguration), while the address space is intentionally so large as to not restrict people to specific network architectures and also to avoid any administrative overhead for allocation of additional addresses - the original assumption was that every "end site" (that is, a customer of an ISP) gets a /48 by default, unless they show that they do indeed need more (which would be a very rare exception).
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