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Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Fri Feb 4 15:44:43 2011

From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <640AC628-0D14-4194-A195-3A58E6008917@humancapitaldev.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:44:27 -0800
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>=20
>> No, and in fact, I believe all the RIRs will probably do a reasonably =
brisk business in reclamation and reallocation, albeit in ever smaller =
blocks.=20

On Feb 4, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
> As holder of a small block, this scares and irritates me. It scares me =
that I might lose my autonomy and future expansion through no fault of =
my own, and it irritates me that the reason I may be forced to give up =
my address space will probably be to satisfy the internet's desperate =
need for more spam cannons.

Excuse me, "reclamation" was probably the wrong word choice on my part.  =
What I was intending to convey was "processing of returned blocks."

And the use for the ever-smaller blocks is not for spammers, but for the =
IPv4 side of 4-to-6 NATs.

                                -Bill




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