> Douglas Otis writes: > > The draft classifies Class-E as "Limited Use for Large Private Internets". > > What large private internets are these, really? Are we discussing Google > potentially needing more than one /8 for its web servers, or are we > discussing providers (DSL, Wimax, 802.11, GSM, 3G or other) giving > customers addresses from 240/4 via DHCP or PPP? > > Employees using 240/4 is one thing. Your mother-in-law getting > 247.1.76.22 from her cable modem is quite another. > > Arnt
Cable companies need this amount of address space for controlling the CPE boxes. The customers still get public addresses. That's a minimum of two addresses per customer. Large corporations need more than a /8. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf