Mark Andrews writes:
Cable companies need this amount of address space for controlling the CPE boxes. The customers still get public addresses. That's a minimum of two addresses per customer.
One of which can easily be an IPv6 address, so allocating 240/x for this would seem to cater to those people who can and will modify their devices to accept 240/4, but cannot or will not give them IPv6 ability.
Large corporations need more than a /8.
A /48 is that, too... Arnt _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf