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Tangentially, I think it'd be interesting to use something like this to explain the networking concepts of throughout, latency, jitter, baud vs bits per second, symbol rate and bits per symbol.
You can find analogous examples in the main video to compare to all of those concepts.
There has been some hardware that takes a bit of a performance hit when doing route lookups that are longer than /64 in the past, but if you're doing this all in software on an end host, that's not an issue.
Go ahead and divide up that /64 to smaller blocks for your classification purposes, you'll still have plenty.
But pole ownership really isn't relevant, here. The right for new companies to attach to the poles isn't in doubt, and isn't part of this dispute.
The dispute here is part of the make ready process...who has the right to rearrange the wires already on the pole to make space for the new attacher? Even the right to have the space made available isn't in doubt...it's merely who does the actual work of making it available.
What's at issue in Louisville is the make ready process after the permit has been issued (after it has been determined that the poles have enough room and are strong enough to handle the new wires).