Plus, you can't get smaller blocks allocated even w hen you need them.... I have a legitimate need for an independent /24 that I can BGP route around to a few d

Plus, you can't get smaller blocks allocated even w hen you need them.... I have a legitimate need for an independent /24 that I can BGP route around to a few datacenters. ARIN says I can only apply for a /22 at the smallest. People are forced to apply for more address space than they really need in order to get any at all. As for hte reasons "WHY" - it was never supposed to be a judgement as to relative value - only that they were actually needed and going to be used. IP addresses were never meant to have value in the first place.