ISP customer assignments

[tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown)]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:24:30AM -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote:
> 
> Sorry to be a curmudgeon and let me play devil's advocate for a minute.  
> I realize that the address space is enormous; gigantic, even, but if we 
> treat it as cavalierly as you all are proposing, it will get used up.  
> If its treated like an infinite resource  that will never, ever be used 
> up as we have done with every other resource on the planet, won't we 
> find ourselves in a heap of trouble? 

At this stage we're only 'being cavalier' with 1/8th of the space.

We can be more restrictive with the the other 7/8ths if those predicting
rapid consumption turn out to be correct.

Right now that would be a nice problem to have.

Tim