[139630] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How is IPv6 deployment going in the APNIC region?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Apr 14 08:48:24 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DA6DF7C.7040704@redpill-linpro.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:47:22 +0200
To: Tore Anderson <tore.anderson@redpill-linpro.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 14 apr 2011, at 13:50, Tore Anderson wrote:
>> This is address space that's now marked as delegated and removed from
>> the pile of unused address space for no obvious reason.
> I believe they are using those prefixes for research.
> and the delegated-extended file, it appears that these prefixes do =
count
> as assigned space like any other assignment. I would assume that when
> the research project is over, they will be returned to the free pool =
and
> assigned under the last /8 policy
That is extremely curious. How can they justify taking 4 million =
addresses for research two days before running out of regularly =
allocatable address space? They could have taken that /10 out of the =
final /8 rather than taking it from the last scraps of regular space if =
they really need a /10 for research, which is already dubious in and of =
itself.
Of course they didn't bother to respond to my request for information =
about all of this.
