On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:39:25 PST, George Herbert said:
It's probably most practical for them to renumber into a subset of their existing space, collapsing down from the whole /8 into a /10 or something longer, which would free up 75% of that space or more.
And they want to go to the trouble of doing that, why, exactly? Imagine taking that to the CIO and/or budgeting people: "We want to start this $mumble-million project to renumber". What's the first question they'll ask? "What's it mean for *our* bottom line?" What's the second? "Then why do we want to spend this money?" It just ain't gonna happen till you have good answers to those. "We can spend $mumble-million renumbering into 1/4 of the space, and then sell off the other 3/4 to various entities for an estimated $mumble-million+20%". *Then* it will happen.