[162505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tore Anderson)
Wed Apr 24 03:10:53 2013
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:46:27 +0200
From: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
To: Andrew Latham <lathama@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+qj4S_Pwfc_sh_rcJFDn5kCxwSB8X4yoJGPQwa9wraTnqw+HA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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* Andrew Latham
> I have sadly witnessed a growing number of businesses with /24s
> moving to colocation/aws networks and not giving up their unused
> network space. I assume this will come into play soon.
A couple of /24s being returned wouldn't make a significant difference
when it comes to IPv4 depletion. Heck, not even a couple of /8s would.
Trying to reclaim and redistribute unused space would be a tremendous
waste of effort.
> I have already read the news of blackmarket sales of network
> allocations in Europe.
Interesting. Do you have a link or some other kind of reference?
Tore
