On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Tom Vest <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:tvest@eyeconomics.com" target="_blank">tvest@eyeconomics.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

If that interpretation is not too far off-base, then I guess you must know something about the state of IPv6 usage* that I don&#39;t know -- or maybe, your definition of &quot;waste&quot; excludes anything that has been paid for, even if the purchased/idle stockpiles serve no other purpose than to exacerbate demand/scarcity among others... ?<br>
<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Well, in a historic and current perspective, what do e.g. Apple, Daimler AG, DuPont, Eli Lilly, Ford, Halliburton, HP (twice!), IBM, Prudential Securities, UK Ministry of Defence, UK Work &amp; Pensions need millions of public IP addresses for, each?<div>
<br></div><div>Perhaps there are one or few others, who in historic times got huge blocks, but which don&#39;t need them.<br>-- <br>Jan
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