[137060] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Last of ipv4 /8's allocated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Tue Feb 8 19:48:49 2011
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:46:12 -0500
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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> Touché! That could theoretically happen. I think Apple should buy HPQDEC just so they can announce 16/7 :-)
>
> None of the RIR blocks are going to be routed that way on purpose, though :-)
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> -Randy
>
>
I agree. Many of those corporations would have a hard time justifying
an entire /8, even IBM. They just don't run large public networks any
longer. Much of what they do is done on private nets. I would make all
of the corporate legacy networks justify their /8's. I'll almost bet
none of them can justify them any longer. I worked for a large medical
company (30,000 seats) and we didn't use an entire /24.
--Curtis