"It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM

Tore Anderson tore at fud.no
Wed Apr 24 05:46:27 UTC 2013


* Andrew Latham

> I have sadly witnessed a growing number of businesses with /24s
> moving to colocation/aws networks and not giving up their unused
> network space. I assume this will come into play soon.

A couple of /24s being returned wouldn't make a significant difference
when it comes to IPv4 depletion. Heck, not even a couple of /8s would.
Trying to reclaim and redistribute unused space would be a tremendous
waste of effort.

> I have already read the news of blackmarket sales of network
> allocations in Europe.

Interesting. Do you have a link or some other kind of reference?

Tore




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