IPv6 Prefix announcing

[streiner at cluebyfour.org (Justin M. Streiner)]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Nick Olsen wrote:

> I've always been under the impression its best practice to only announce
> prefixes of a /24 and above when it comes to IPv4 and BGP.
> I was wondering if something similar had been agreed upon regarding IPv6.
> And if That's the case, What's the magic number? /32? /48? /64?

You're likely to get different answers to this, but the 'magic number' 
appears to be /48.  Looking in the v6 BGP table, you will likely find 
smaller prefixes than that, but a number of the major carriers seem to be 
settling on /48 as the smallest prefix they will accept.  /48 is also the 
smallest block most of the RIRs will assign to end-users.

jms