[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Policy Proposal (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)
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David Conrad
david.conrad at icann.org
Mon Oct 29 19:11:17 CET 2007
On 10/29/07 8:41 AM, "michael.dillon at bt.com" <michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote: >> And we've tried appealing to people's better natures to >> return unused space. The result confirmed what most of us >> thought already: people mostly don't have better natures. > > Then how do you explain the success that IANA have had in recovering > address space as reported by Bill Manning and now, Leo Vegoda, over the > past 10 years or so? "low hanging fruit". >> Leo has already proved that a (fairly simple) reclamation job >> takes a lot of time and resource. This is for a /8 that no >> one much wanted and no one much used. > > What proof do you have that this was simple? 14/8 was defined by the IETF to be used to interconnect X.25 networks to the Internet. As you might imagine, the addresses in that /8 weren't in particularly active use. I'll let Leo provide more details if he likes. There may one or two other /8s that IANA or the RIRs might be able to reclaim, but I wouldn't hold my breath... Regards, -drc
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