[155990] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 172.0.0.0/12 has been Allocated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Bennett)
Sun Sep 2 23:11:28 2012
To: "Jeroen van Aart" <jeroen@mompl.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:09:52 -0400
From: "Paul Bennett" <paul.w.bennett@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <50369C8E.6030003@mompl.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:11:42 -0400, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
wrote:
> The 16777214 IP addresses (give or take) in their 12/8 assignment aren't
> enough? Oh wait, it's probably used internally and renumbering to 10/8
> would be too big a hurdle to take. ;-)
The 12/8 address space is fully allocated out, I believe entirely to
customers. Do the math. 35,000,000 residential customers (plus) on DSL and
FTTx (many with a /29, /27, or larger assigned), plus very many managed
services customers with full /24s and even /16s. It's no wonder they're
hungry for IP space. Their enormous customer base is hungry for it.
--
Paul Bennett
