[139632] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How is IPv6 deployment going in the APNIC region?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Apr 14 09:03:12 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <6198BBAE-7A30-4311-A2F1-6E8ED991FEF7@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:59:57 -0700
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 14, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 14 apr 2011, at 13:50, Tore Anderson wrote:
>=20
>>> This is address space that's now marked as delegated and removed =
from
>>> the pile of unused address space for no obvious reason.
>=20
>> I believe they are using those prefixes for research.
>=20
>> 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
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Of course they didn't bother to respond to my request for information =
about all of this.
>=20
I believe that rather than research, those are prefixes which are =
particularly "dirty" and
they have allocated them to the project to try and get them cleaned up =
so that they can
be subsequently issued.
Owen
