On July 15, 2015 at 09:20 owen@delong.com (Owen DeLong) wrote:
There are two ways to waste addresses. One is to allocate them to users who don,Ab��(Bt actually use all of them.
The other is to keep them on the shelf in the free pool until well past the useful life of the protocol.
I'd add a third which is segmentation and I think that's a real threat. That is, assigning large chunks to specific functions by policy usually in support of technical needs. For example IPv4's multicast block. Poof, 224/4 gone. Or similar. Suddenly it's not 2^N bits it's just N bits. My claim is that such segmentation tends to grow over time as people find good arguments to segment. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*