past vs future use

[Larry Vaden]

At 04:30 PM 6/28/97 -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
>
>Can an ISP justify allocations via swip by assigning 300% more space than
>initially needed to all of its end users? 
>

I'm not sure about 300%, but 800-1600% seems to work (i.e., those ISPs
using static ip assignment for dialup customers) `[8-((

I don't have information on the ratio of IPs to customers for, e.g., @HOME,
but 24.0.0.0 seems to contain a lot of cable television firms with large
CIDR blocks.

I presume prior efficient utilization of a /19 could be documented with a
Freedom of Information Act request along with protective orders for any
confidential information.





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