Re: Extending a /64

[Philip Homburg <[e-mail]>]

>If the need is shown, why would the aerospace industry not get the 
>address space?  /17 of address space for an entire industry with unified 
>networking goals doesn't seem especially unreasonable, i.e. it's very 
>large service provider size.  There aren't that many other equivalent 
>society / industry areas which have common networking goals in the same 
>way that the aerospace industry does.

Of course this is more a discussion for the relevant RIR communities, but
for example based on RIPE policies, I don't see how you could get a /17 for
around 500000 internet connections. Even if you assume a couple of 
hundred passengers per plane and a /48 per passenger then it still doesn't
add up.

In what way is the aerospace large from a network point of view? 500000
connections is not a lot. In most parts of the world that would be a smallish
ISP.