As the wikipedia article states, and as the IANA assignments are coming through--you, as your personal self, gets a /48 block. Or rather, your "premises" gets a

As the wikipedia article states, and as the IANA assignments are coming through--you, as your personal self, gets a /48 block. Or rather, your "premises" gets a /48 block. If you're a small business owner with 10 computers, you get a /48 block. If you're a home user, you get a /48 block. If you're a large enterprise business, you get a /48 block. It's a rather significant waste of addressing and I really wish they had moved it over a few blocks, but that's the current plan. That said, you have to figure. Right now, for internet alone, we're using only 1/8th the space of the IPv6 address space. The plans are 2000::/3. Which essentially means 2000:: through 3FFF::. that's a rather ridiculous amount of hosts. It comes out to 2^125 hosts. 4.25352959 × 10^37 hosts on the internet. It's unfathomably large. So it doesn't really matter if huge chunks are wasted. You won't ever really use all of it anyway. I agree that the IPv6 space is ridiculously large, but that's kind of the point. They realized that the internet infrastructure will only continue to grow--and they want to, at all costs, avoid any problem with hitting the limit of addressing at any point in the future. The larger it grows, the more of a problem it will be to change it later on.