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I would argue that Ford (and the other multinationals) have more need of an /8 than any university that is just in a single city.

• hrrsn 12y ago
  A /8 is 16,777,216 addresses. Ford has 181,000 employees as of 2013 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company). That's very roughly 92 publicly routable IP addresses per employee. I highly doubt they need that many.
  • icefox 12y ago
    What about 1 per car?
    • mikeash 12y ago
      In practice, I imagine they'd outsource the internet connectivity bit to cellular carriers (as is the case for OnStar and similar at the moment) and those companies would be the ones to worry about provisioning IP addresses.
      • blueskin_ 12y ago
        This, plus the IPs mobile networks use are all heavily NATed anyway.
        • hrrsn 12y ago
          Perfect use case for IPv6 anyway.
• mikeash 12y ago
  I would agree, and say that universities with an entire /8 probably shouldn't have them anymore either. That's a case where it definitely made sense early on, but stopped making sense quite a while ago.
  • justincormack 12y ago
    Imperial College had two as the computer science department had its own /8. Probably still does.