[102556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Vegoda)
Tue Feb 19 13:26:31 2008
From: Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@icann.org>
To: "michael.dillon@bt.com" <michael.dillon@bt.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:15:36 -0800
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B001FE4DBB@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 19/02/2008 09:57, "michael.dillon@bt.com" <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
[...]
> Easily!? I'm not so sure that is a correct description of the process.
> Perhaps Leo Vegoda could comment on this point since he had more
> first hand involvement than I did.
On the whole, these assignments were for one or two /32s. They were unlikel=
y
to be useful for anything else. The one network that renumbered didn't have
a problem finding a couple of spare /32s from their RIR space.
I think I would have seen significantly more difficulties if the assignment=
s
had mostly been used or been for /24 or shorter prefixes.
The difficulty I experienced in reclaiming 14/8 was finding out who to
contact. Once I'd found someone who knew about the addresses there wasn't
really any resistance to returning them.
That being said, the process took about a year of calendar time, which is
more than I had expected. I have been looking at other /8s for about the
same time with less success.
Regards,
Leo
