Some short rants that just might help. But probably not.
This is a sample IPv6 number plan that was put together with good intentions. It will not be complete, and it isn't likely to be the answer you're looking for -- but it may help you find your way to developing one of your own. Feel free to use any of the ideas here.
I'm assuming that people taking the time to read this will also be familiar with acronyms and jargon used. If you run into a term you don't know, ask about it in the comments.
Joe's Internet is a WISP that has just been given the right to use a block of IPv6 address from their Regional Internet Registry (RIR). Currently, Joe's Internet has 37 towers/POPs that they use to service customers, but have just won a bid to deploy 13 more POPs. That means 50 POPs that require numbering.
This numbering plan will give Joe's Internet the ability to give every customer unique address blocks for their Internet use. There will be plenty of addresses for customer use, and no need to force multiple clients to proxy behind a single address.
Let's assign each POP a 2 digit hex code -- that gives us room for 256 POPs. We haven't used a quarter of our address space with this idea -- so have plenty of room to grow, or to make changes down the line if the original plan is too wasteful.
So, every POP can have 255 customers with a /48 each.
We'll reserve the initial POP customer (00) for infrastructure. It'll let us have easily remembered and typed addresses for things we might need to hardcode, etc. When other POPs get customer codes, we'll use them to differentiate things we might find useful.
2001:DB8:00F0:: /48 -- NOC testing?
2001:DB8:00FF:: /48 -- NOC testing?
Cust: 00 -- none / us!
This gives us 256 loopback addresses per POP, which should be sufficient for growth.
We can make these /126 if we want to be able to have other equipment addressable on these links.
I used to think I was a Network Engineer. Recently, I realized that the best work I was doing was only tangentially related to networks. It was a revelation. As friends pointed out, I do "interesting things."
Maybe I'll rant, or perhaps not. I will, however, start documenting more of what I do, because people have asked me to do so.
The first new post comes from a request to publish an IPv6 numbering plan that I put together. Others will follow.