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

Joel Esler joel.esler at me.com
Wed Oct 20 20:55:39 UTC 2010


On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:
> 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.
>> 
> 
> So would it be more logical for all those willing to return do so only after depletion when the impact and resulting appreciation is likely to be greater?

That was my overall point.  There are lots of places that /8, and multiple ones at that that aren't using them.  I'm not saying it'll put off going to v6 for years, but it'll help in our current time.


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