ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

John Curran jcurran at arin.net
Wed Oct 20 15:28:44 UTC 2010


On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
>> Thank you Interop - for performing an outstanding act of altruism.
>> 
>> John, could you provide more details at this stage on how much address space
>> was returned to ARIN?
> 
> less than 3 months supply at the going drain rate.

Not to be depressing, but a /8 (or 99% of one :-) is potentially less
than one month's drain on the global IPv4 free pool, if one considers 
the allocations over the last 12 months to be predictive.

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN






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