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I imagine the threshold of org size where they stop taking their prefixes from their ISP and just go get their own from the RIR is .... Not big.

Sure, some network engineers will try and design v6 networks as though they're v4, but everyone else will just go and get a squillion addresses from the RIR that's unique to their org and then just use/announce that.

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What about home private network (for smart home, for example)?

Home networks don't usually have the problem of having to suddenly merge together with another, similarly-addressed network.

Nothing stops you getting a subnet allocated from your local RIR and announcing that on the internet, if you care about that sort of thing for your home network though. You just need a decent ISP.

> Nothing stops you […] You just need a decent ISP.

I’ll just leave that there.

No, I can’t just choose to have a decent ISP. I live in the real world where there’s only one choice where I live, same as a rather large majority of people in the world.

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