[58043] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Tue Apr 29 18:57:38 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Daniel Golding" <dgold@FDFNet.Net>,
"Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: "Temkin, David" <temkin@sig.com>,
"Kai Schlichting" <kai@pac-rim.net>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:43:54 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Daniel Golding" <dgold@FDFNet.Net>
> And in the event the owner can't be contacted? And if contact is
> successful, and the owner says "I'm just holding on to it because I like
> have 10 /24s" or, worse, he gets the clue and just starts advertising the
> space, without using it? Then we have both address space waste and
> routing table bloat...
While that is certainly problematic, it's just not worth dealing with until
all of the truly unused space is reclaimed or voluntarily returned AND we
have run out of new space to assign.
Most people will Do The Right Thing when given the chance. Case in point:
about 6 years ago, I emailed the contacts for every unrouted block within a
particular swamp /16. The overwhelming majority offerred to give (not sell)
the block to me, a few didn't respond, and a couple dozen indicated they
were using or planning to use the block in the near future. I dropped the
project, having more important things to do, but I figure I could have
snatched up a sizeable portion of the swamp just by asking. Too bad ISI got
into the game before I thought of it again ;)
S
Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein
CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
