[arin-discuss] Facebook /20, Google /16

[Christopher Morrow]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Jason Hensley <jason at jaggartech.com> wrote:
> Anyone have any idea why Facebook would have a full /20 assigned to them?
> Seems to me a fine example of the waste that we have out there with IP's.
>
> Google is another - they own a /16.  Ugh!!
>
> Yeah, I know, we all complain about it, but come on!  That just doesn't make
> sense.

keeping aside two things:
1) my employer (google)
2) previous emails to this thread

How long does a /8 last in global allocations today? (<3months)
How many /16's are in a /8? (256)
How many hours does it take to allocate a /16 globally today? (8.5hrs)

How is this helping the migration to ipv6?

-Chris