Comcast will continue to share what we learn with the Internet community, particularly with the IETF, for the benefit of other users of the Internet. What you didn’t notice in that statement was the font size 0.0001 where they added some disclaimers about their definitions of community, share, and benefit.
The interesting part is 1/8 was just allocated. That’s hard to look at without reading it as one-eighth. IANA predicts all address blocks will be completely assigned by late 2011. I guess the real switch to IPv6 will be a forced one after all.