On 25-apr-2005, at 17:54, Rob Evans wrote:
Seriously: what's going on here?
They filled in the forms and justified the address usage?
Would you prefer they were using NATs? I'm thinking large allocations of real address space is a good thing. :-)
I'm sure there are projections that indicate this level of address use in the future for the allocatees in question. But does that necessitate giving out /10 or even larger blocks? At some point, the growth will end. When that happens, it's better that half a /12 remains unused than half a /10. It's not like having /12s in the routing table rather than /10s is going to lead to undue growth in the routing tables... Another look at the data shows that 1M and bigger allocations aren't entirely new: there are currently 80 allocations/assignments of a million or more addresses for a total of 172 million addresses. However, there is a significant upward trend. The number of addresses allocated/assigned in these blocks is: Year APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPENCC Total 2000 1.05 9.44 0.00 2.10 12.58 2001 8.39 10.49 0.00 4.19 23.07 2002 11.53 4.78 0.00 6.29 22.61 2003 12.58 4.19 1.05 10.49 28.31 2004 15.73 9.76 1.05 11.93 38.47 2005 16.78 14.02 0.00 16.19 46.99 (That's right: we're already well past last year before the end of april.)