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Many of these should be reclaimed by IANA. Why do L3, ATT and HP need two /8s. Why does DOD need ten /8s? Why do CSC, Halliburton, PSINet, eli lilly, prudential
by vaadu 12y ago
Many of these should be reclaimed by IANA. Why do L3, ATT and HP need two /8s. Why does DOD need ten /8s? Why do CSC, Halliburton, PSINet, eli lilly, prudential, Bell-Northern Research and dupont, Daimler, Apple, GE, MIT, Ford, Xerox, IBM, Merck and the USPO need /8s.
- monocasa 12y ago> Why does DOD need ten /8s? Of that list, I can actually see the DoD needing 240M IP addresses.
- WatchDog 12y agoWhy does DOD need any publicly rout-able IP address space, other than to run a handful of brochure sites, which could easily be outsourced.
- objclxt 12y agoThe argument against reclaiming is that is serves little point at this stage in the game. It really buys you no significant time, and really we should be doing all we can to move everyone over to IPv6.
- Dylan16807 12y agoIt could buy a couple decades.
- wtallis 12y agoNobody wants to buy a couple decades of carrier-grade NAT, and the addresses that could be reclaimed won't buy any significant time of anything more open than that.
- wmf 12y agoThe estimate I saw was that each /8 reclaimed would buy one month. There were only 128 class As total and many of them are really in use (and of course the military will never give anything up).
- raincom 12y agoAt apple, routable addresses are handed over to macs used by people. They use private IPs just for production infrastructure.