[139653] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How is IPv6 deployment going in the APNIC region?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Fri Apr 15 06:21:28 2011
From: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
In-Reply-To: <6198BBAE-7A30-4311-A2F1-6E8ED991FEF7@muada.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:21:05 +1000
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 14/04/2011, at 10:47 PM, 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
>=20
The addresses were "in flight" to the recipient and got caught up in a =
set of scripted processes that inappropriately assigned them into the =
debogon project for a couple of days while some related administrative =
processes were underway.
Our apologies for the temporary confusion -- and we promise do better =
next time! :-)
And yes, APNIC is indeed down to the last /8 - =
<http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/final-8> contains the =
announcement
Also, our apologies for not getting back to Iljitsch's request for =
information sooner - we have been somewhat busy in the last few days!
thanks,
Geoff=
