[111287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Tue Feb 3 00:39:49 2009
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:35:15 CDT."
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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:39:26 +1100
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <ADE1A7A6-7177-4C77-8023-60058FDF076B@ianai.net>, "Patrick W. Gilmor
e" writes:
> 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.
>
> --
> TTFN,
> patrick
But they will when you will exceeded 65536 networks.
Mark
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