[ethbro]

Maybe take a dose of humility and realize that at one point the fastest processors and memory systems in the world weren't capable of holding more than a limited size routing table, while maintaining acceptable line speed?

And that in the interests of working within the physical hardware limitations of the day, very smart engineers made the best choices they could?

Jesus.

[takeda]

What this has to do with anything? I'm saying that giving whole /8 (or I should say class A) to a company is wasteful. And you can only do it no more than a bit over 200 times. You are on the other hand saying that the hardware at the time wouldn't be able to handle all the companies. Why not allocate C blocks, or at very least B blocks? Or are you saying that they doubted hardware of the future would be capable of handling it?

Because of such wasteful allocation we got this "wonderful" thing called NAT which basically killed most of innovation in area of networking and IPv6 which is taking over 20 years to adapt, because most ISPs hold to IPv4 as long as they can because making this switch requires some work.