[75556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Tue Nov 16 06:47:20 2004
In-Reply-To: <1100590135.1408.48.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:46:45 +0100
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
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On 2004-11-16, at 08.28, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> I have seen IPv6 prefixes, that were allocated and then returned, being
> allocated to another organization with somewhat a period of 6 months in
> between.
Good!
> Thus one can assume that ASN will be re-used too. Of course I
> think that the few couple of prefixes I happen to have seen this
> happening with where 'given back' from the originally owning
> organization and not reclaimed from them. Meaning that the RIR knew
> that
> it was not in use anymore. Fortunately there are of course systems like
> RIS (http://ris.ripe.net) to figure this out. Then again, allocations,
> be they ASN's, IPv6 or IPv4 prefixes, are not only allocated for the
> public internet usage, but solely to be globally unique.
I am less interested in how these resources where reclaimed. I think
that shouldn't matter. I think it's better that we start reclaiming and
reusing to gain some experience. Again, that will be so much easier to
do sooner than later...
- - kurtis -
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