On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:
Given the number of new ISPs that come to them for provider independent addresses, they isn't enough IPv4 address space to do the above with.
Are you sure of this? Even if they start allocating out of the former Class A space?
After all, getting a reserved /16 out of the former Class A space wouldn't exactly be free because you would need to buy a NAT in order to avoid renumbering down the road so not *ALL* ISP's are going to demand one of these. And it doesn't hurt to publicize the existence of NAT technology either, because if ISP's know that NAT's exist they are more likely to deploy them at customer sites along with RFC1918 addresses.
But that's not what you said. Given that Internic gets about 50-60 address requests a week, if you reserve /16 for each, you can do the math. I guess this would force the deployment of IPv6 much sooner than currently projected. -dorian