From: Jim Fleming (jfleming_at_no.spam)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 12:17:45 PST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Smith" <paul-at-pscs.co.uk>
>
> Eg, I picked a number at random - 52.0.0.0/8. This is owned by 'dupont.com'
> who I'm sure are a wonderful company, but they 'only' have 85000 employees
> - why on earth do they need 16M IP addresses, even if each employee has 10
> PCs they've still got 15.9M spare addresses? They aren't an ISP so they
> aren't giving the addresses to other people. There are other similar examples.
>
It all boils down to fairness.
Which list do you think is more fair ?
The "toy" IPv4 Internet Early Experimentation Allocations ?
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
or
The Proof-of-Concept IPv8 Allocations ?
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
Why would people pay for Address Space, when it is FREE ?
Jim Fleming
http://www.DOT-BIZ.com
http://www.in-addr.info
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