TIL that apparently capital one was assigned the entire 2630::/16 block…which is the largest assignment I’ve seen to date. Does anyone know of other absolutely massive allocations…are there even any others this large?
TIL that apparently capital one was assigned the entire 2630::/16 block…which is the largest assignment I’ve seen to date. Does anyone know of other absolutely massive allocations…are there even any others this large?
So there you have it, 2630::/16 is currently the largest block allocated by any RIR by far! Honestly, I am most surprised by Egypt and South Africa’s allocation considering how poor the deployment of IPv6 has been over there.
Also… I can’t be the only person to think that assigning an /16 to a financial company is incredibly wasteful, right? Especially considering that we can only ever have 65536 /16s. It sounds like something that is better allocated to an ISP. What was ARIN even thinking?
edit: And the other blocks listed above are indeed all allocated to Internet service providers! (Except 2a08::/19 which was allocated to the UK Ministry of Defence) What the hell, ARIN?
I knew about 2003::/19 being allocated to DTAG but this list is an awesome summary and I didn’t know about the rest. The /19 going to the UK MoD is not surprising since they have 25/8 in v4 land. It is really weird that it’s capital one…like…ISPs and military always ends up with a lot of IP space…but why capital one?? Also the description of the space is internal space??? Especially since as of now they haven’t announced any of that space. I really hope it’s not just like a large private space, that’d be obscene. It really makes no sense to me. I can’t imagine they’d need…4 billion /48s…