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by pilif 1761 days ago
You need a /48 (or /56) if you want to do your own subnetting and keep using SLAAC (which is the default way for assigning v6 addresses and detecting address conflicts).

A /64 is not enough for that. You can still create your own subnets, but you will be on your own with address assignment

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Name and shame the ISP that won't let you do a prefix delegation request to get a larger prefix assigned...
BellAliant in eastern Canada, the only provider of residential layer 1 fiber in my area, still isn't even assigning a /128 or /64, let alone proper delegation.
That's an ISP that apparently still doesn't offer IPv6 at all... not an ISP that has a misconfigured IPv6 network.
Not offering IPv6 is intentional misconfiguration in this day and age, and deserves shame.