[ncc-services-wg] legacy holders paying for registration services and 2012-07v2
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Nick Hilliard
nick at netability.ie
Sat Feb 23 18:43:45 CET 2013
On 23/02/2013 01:13, Randy Bush wrote: > again, the owners may be quite happy with the data as they are. yep. >> Interesting. So at the moment, it looks like between 30%-40% (i.e. from >> (393+851)/4050 to (339+393+851)/4050) of the ERX address space is arguably >> abandoned > > from a measurement point of view 'arguably' may be the most important > word in that sentence what I said was: "it looks like between 30%-40% of the ERX address space is arguably abandoned from the point of view of RIPE-DB maintainership - although obviously not necessarily from other points of view". I'm certainly not saying that the address space is unused. > unfortunately we have never come up with a method to classify space > rigorously. hard problem. and i am not optimistic. look at the recent > noise about the uk gov /8 that looked unmaintained. it was reasonably well known that this /8 was used internally within the UK's public sector networks. The only surprising thing about that noise was that it happened at all, but I guess we all have a special love for public display of moral outrage when it comes to bureaucracies. I agree that classification is difficult, but I'd like to play around with the data and see whether it throws up anything interesting. Nick
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