[137308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Feb 10 19:09:46 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:07:52 +0000
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikc26OOh3qgB5YqH7uYnz64aUJhAj19MuSdK6me@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:13 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
> Perhaps the RIRs should personally and directly ask each /8 legacy
> holder to provide
> account of their utilization (which portions of the allocation is
> used, how many hosts),
> and ASK for each unused /22 [or shorter] to be returned.
I've done close: contacted each one, explained the situation, and asked=20
for whatever resources they can return to please return. This has yielded
results. I have not asked for an account of their utilization.
> The legacy holders might (or might not) refuse. They might (or
> might not) tell the RIRs "Hell no"
> In any case, the registry should ASK and publish an indication
> for each legacy /8 at least.
I asked them all. Some have been returned, some are in progress, some
are opted to hold them to be monetized via the Specified Transfer policy.
> So the community will know which (if any) legacy /8 holders are
> likely to be returning the community's
> IPv4 addresses that they obtained but don't have need for.
There is likely to be another fractional /8 being returned, but not=20
much more.
> The community should also know which /8 legacy holders say "Hell no,
> we're keeping all our /8s,
> and not telling you how much of the community's IPv4 resources we're
> actually using".
As I did not explain in advance to each to the parties that their responses=
=20
would be public, it would not be proper to publicly post the information.
Discussions with individual resource holders is treated as confidential=20
information.
FYI,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
