Philip D'Ath wrote:
Where did those numbers come from, because they disagree with the numbers quoted here: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_8-3/ipv4. html
The figures you have given look like the monthly allocation rates, as opposed to the annual rates.
So... assuming they're average monthly rates for each year, there'd be approx 492 /8's allocated since '02. They don't look like monthly /at all/.
This is the chart of /8 allocates per month: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/images/ipj/ipj_8-3/83_ipv4_fi gure_02_lg.jpg Reference [1] on that Cisco page is the following file, so, I fed it to a one-liner:
$ wget http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space -q -O - | tail -n +15 | head -n 256 | grep -v IANA | cut -d\ -f5 | sort | uniq -c 4 00 6 01 4 02 5 03 9 04 13 05 10 06 8 91 8 92 60 93 14 94 10 95 4 96 4 97 3 98 2 99 His numbers appear to be accurate. -- Nathan Ward