[124593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Fri Apr 2 18:42:08 2010
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 18:41:32 -0400
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1FAC079B-29B8-4D51-BE44-F27B4A038E2D@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Friday 02 April 2010 06:14:33 pm Owen DeLong wrote:
> This is where Legacy vs. RIR becomes meaningful. Legacy holders have
> no contractual obligation to return unused space. RIR recipients, on the
> other hand, do.
Some legacy holders might, I imagine, be 'squatting' on that legacy space and
are getting ready to 'sell' some to the highest bidder, generating who knows
how much revenue, if their agreement allows them to do so.
A few of those same legacy holders might even want to impede IPv6 uptake to
make their /8 more valuable when the crunch comes.
Perhaps I'm too paranoid. But I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of
these possibilities (in my case, however, I have no legacy space, and wouldn't
go that route even if I did).
