Re: /8 end user assignment?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0508041931430.1697-100000 () server2 tcw telecomplete ne
t>, "Stephen J. Wilcox" writes:
>

> 2. We know cable companies, dsl providers and mobile companies can use this ma
> ny 
> IPs, but they generally seem to make use of NAT and IPv6. If everyone in this 
> category who could justify a /8 applied and received them we might be in real 
> trouble with our IPv4 space.
>
> I had said elsewhere this was unprecedented but was then pointed at 73.0.0.0/9, 
> 73.128.0.0/10 which is Comcast assigned in April. I'm surprised none of these 
> assignemtns have shown up on mailing lists..

When it comes to Comcast, I'm just an ordinary residential subscriber, 
but they don't use NAT for subscriber addresses as best I can tell.  
Certainly, I've never been given one, asked about one, etc.

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb