[162667] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee Howard)
Mon Apr 29 14:46:47 2013
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:46:42 -0400
From: Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?Suly9G1l?= Nicolle <jerome@ceriz.fr>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <517DFF3A.6080005@ceriz.fr>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/29/13 1:03 AM, "J=E9r=F4me Nicolle" <jerome@ceriz.fr> wrote:
>Le 24/04/2013 07:46, Tore Anderson a =E9crit :
>> Trying to reclaim and redistribute unused space would be a tremendous
>> waste of effort.
>
>It is necessary to keep an acceptable churn and still allocate small
>blocks to newcomers, merely to deploy CGNs.
>
>Not doing so would end up in courts for entry barrier enforced by a
>monopoly (the RIRs).
There is a /10 reserved to facilitate IPv6 deployment:
https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#four10
"Reclamation" is facilitated by offering a financial benefit, i.e.,
selling underused addresses.
>
>Therefore it is inevitable to reclaim unused address space as long as
>there's a demand for IPv4, wich will still be strong as long as major
>players refuse to do their jobs.
>
>Moreover, I think it's necessary for all responsible LIR and RIRs to
>take a stand and vote policies to reclaim address space from networks
>who are still not deploying IPv6 as those obviously don't want to be a
>part of the Internet anymore.
I encourage you to propose such a policy:
https://www.arin.net/participate/how_to_participate.html
Please make sure the proposal includes clear metrics for when to reclaim,
so ARIN staff isn't forced to rely on what may be inconsistent judgement
calls.
Lee
