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Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Anderson)
Tue Feb 10 17:41:47 2009

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:39:11 -0500
From: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:31:38PM +0100, Matthias Leisi wrote:
> Mark Andrews schrieb:
> > 	I don't see any reason to complain based on those numbers.
> > 	It's just a extremely high growth period due to technology
> > 	change over bring in new functionality.
> 
> OTOH, Verizon is not the only provider of smartphone connectivity in the
> world. Most of them try to be "good citizens" and do not waste a scarce
> resource (IPv4 space).

I disagree that using global IPv4 space is a "waste".  Every device 
deserves to have "real" internet connectivity and not this NAT crap.


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