[111286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Feb 3 00:35:24 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <bac8af1e16becc234ea9777f18a66d90@smtp.arbitraryconstant.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:35:15 -0500
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On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:30 AM, Anthony Roberts wrote:
>> Let's face it - they're going to have to come up with much more
>> creative
>> $200/hour chucklehead consultants to burn through that much anytime
>> soon.
>
> It has been my experience that when you give someone a huge address
> space
> to play with (eg 10/8), they start doing things like using bits in the
> address as flags for things. Suddenly you find yourself using a prefix
> that should enough for a decent sized country in a half-rack.
>
> It's only slightly harder to imagine a /48 being wasted like that.
Except the RIRs won't give you another /48 when you have only used one
trillion IP addresses.
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TTFN,
patrick
