[NANOG] fair warning: less than 1000 days left to IPv4 exhaustion

Mon May 5 03:01:09 UTC 2008

On May 3, 2008, at 8:37 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> William Warren wrote:
>> That also doesn't take into account how many /8's are being hoarded  
>> by
>> organizations that don't need even 25% of that space.
> which one's would those be?

While I wouldn't call it hoarding, can any single (non-ISP)  
organization actually justify a /8?  How many students does MIT have  
again?

> legacy class A address space just isn't that big...

There is more legacy space (IANA_Registry + VARIOUS, using Geoff's  
labels) than all space allocated by the RIRs combined.

Regards,
-drc