[83104] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /8 end user assignment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Aug 5 03:11:35 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:35:24 BST."
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0508041931430.1697-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:36:11 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0508041931430.1697-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.ne
t>, "Stephen J. Wilcox" writes:
>
>2. We know cable companies, dsl providers and mobile companies can use this ma
>ny
>IPs, but they generally seem to make use of NAT and IPv6. If everyone in this
>category who could justify a /8 applied and received them we might be in real
>trouble with our IPv4 space.
>
>I had said elsewhere this was unprecedented but was then pointed at 73.0.0.0/9,
>73.128.0.0/10 which is Comcast assigned in April. I'm surprised none of these
>assignemtns have shown up on mailing lists..
>
When it comes to Comcast, I'm just an ordinary residential subscriber,
but they don't use NAT for subscriber addresses as best I can tell.
Certainly, I've never been given one, asked about one, etc.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
