[address-policy-wg] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hain-1918bis-00.txt

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, James A. T. Rice wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
> 
> > Or should I just read this draft (on top of some other MByte of stuff
> > that should be read ;-)
> 
> Its only a short draft, but I'm in disbelief that "A number of
> organizations have expanded their autonomous private networks to the point
> of exhausting the address space identified in RFC 1918"
> 
> Sounds more like poor / lazy / classful subnetting to me, of which the
> cure is is not allocating another 3 /8's of otherwise usuable globally
> unique IP space.
> 
> We already have 10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16, 169.254/16, 192.0.2/24. If
> these 18 million IPs aren't enough for an enterprises internal usage, I'm
> amazed.

Ditto.  But there might be cellphone providers with large coverage areas
that might need that many.

-Hank

> 
> Regards
> James
> 

Hank Nussbacher