[156499] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Wed Sep 19 00:26:48 2012
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAN3um4zGsbRL9K2snL0N6qDgP7RU_4dw_z1F0RQ3bnbr1H8eDA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:25:56 -0700
To: Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 18, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Mike Hale wrote:
> I'd love to hear the reasoning for this. Why would it be bad policy
> to force companies to use the resources they are assigned or give them
> back to the general pool?
Here's one: there's little to no legal basis for such reclamation so any =
such attempt would end up in the legal system. Take a gander at how long =
that might take. Now go look at the consumption rates for IPv4, and =
recognize that the relevance of reclaiming that space isn't likely to =
extend to even the first hearing for said court case. It's not worth the =
effort, for something that will eventually become valueless. And =
actually, not reclaiming the space will make it valueless even faster as =
IPv6 migration takes off.
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Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet =
projects.
