Re: [address-policy-wg] 2005-01 - Last Call for Comments (HD-ratio Proposal)

[Randy Bush randy@localhost]

> I was also surprised by this number when I first saw it in the output.
> 
> Looking behind this 46% number, the outcome is a result of the amplified 
> effects of the HD Ratio for large allocations. 50% of this increased 
> address consumption is in allocations of /9 and /10 prefixes, which only 
> account for 1% of all actual allocations, but 20% of the allocated addresses.
> 
> The other effect is a shift from /16 to /15 allocations in this HDR regime 
> - /16s and /15s together contribute a further 15% to this increased address 
> consumption.

i.e., this is what the conservatives and smaller folk have been
intuiting all along, the big players get more than a fair (as we
think of it today) share and the small folk lose.

grrrrrrrr.

could we please add ppml@localhost to the cc:s?  thanks.

randy