[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Policy Proposal (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>> Leo has already proved that a (fairly simple) reclamation job takes a
>> lot of time and resource. This is for a /8 that no one much wanted and
>> no one much used.
> 
> Was that the 14/8 thing? Only 129 individual addresses out of 16777216
> where used. Maybe just reclaiming the other 16777087 would have been
> more efficient.

May be. But sorry, you can't enforce it now. You even have no time to
make an implemented in the real life policy that can reclaim any block
before free IP space will be finished.

So, we have to live with market. Not only because of it.  The only we
can do is to make that market white and clear.

-- 
WBR,
Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253 at FIDO)