RE: exponential route prefix growth, was: Re: The Cidr Report

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Fri, 22 September 2000, John Fraizer wrote:
> Who's forcing address space on customers?  It's like pulling teeth to get
> address space from most of them!

Cable&Wireless for one.  I worked with several customers who never used
the /24's allocated by C&W, but even after repeatedly telling C&W we don't
need them, C&W wouldn't take them back.  Every circuit came with a /24
whether you needed it or not.