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

On 10/29/07 8:41 AM, "michael.dillon at bt.com" <michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote:
>> And we've tried appealing to people's better natures to
>> return unused space. The result confirmed what most of us
>> thought already: people mostly don't have better natures.
> 
> Then how do you explain the success that IANA have had in recovering
> address space as reported by Bill Manning and now, Leo Vegoda, over the
> past 10 years or so?

"low hanging fruit".

>> 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.
> 
> What proof do you have that this was simple?

14/8 was defined by the IETF to be used to interconnect X.25 networks to the
Internet.  As you might imagine, the addresses in that /8 weren't in
particularly active use.  I'll let Leo provide more details if he likes.

There may one or two other /8s that IANA or the RIRs might be able to
reclaim, but I wouldn't hold my breath...

Regards,
-drc