> Let's face it - they're going to have to come up with much more creative > $200/hour chucklehead consultants to burn through that much anytime soon.
It has been my experience that when you give someone a huge address space to play with (eg 10/8), they start doing things like using bits in the address as flags for things. Suddenly you find yourself using a prefix that should enough for a decent sized country in a half-rack. It's only slightly harder to imagine a /48 being wasted like that. -Anthony