Re: [Hampshire] IPV4 : 700 days and counting ?

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Author: Andy Smith
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] IPV4 : 700 days and counting ?

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Hello,

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:08:15PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:40:16 +0000, andy@??? said:
> > For example, some broadband providers have too many subscribers
> > for each one to get a unique IPv4 address inside any RFC1918
> > block.
>
> Really? Given that 10.0.0.0/8 has 16.5+ million nodes, there can't
> be /that/ many ISPs with more customers than that (although I can believe
> there are some). Maybe we should view IPv4 as the ultimate anti-monopoly
> tool...


http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-54/presentations/IPv6_management.pdf
        Until recently, Comcast was using Net 10 (RFC1918) for
        managing the cable modems:


                – That space was exhausted in 2005.


There are more examples in asiapac because the population is much
denser.

Cheers,
Andy

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