[address-policy-wg] The final /8 policy proposals, part 2

Randy and all,

  How far and how much effort has been exercised by the RIR's in
reclaiming unused IPv4 addresses so far?  I haven't seen much
activity in this area of late, and in fact no activity/effort in this area.

Seems to me that there is an awful lot of assinged but unused
IPv4 address space that could/should be reclaimed for re-allocation
to more needy or yet to be known entities.

Randy Bush wrote:

> Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl>
> > a) Everyone gets one (and only one) fixed size block, as described in
> > 2008-06
>
> apnic chose this path, i believe for the following reason you state:
>
> > I think it is important to think about new companies. They will very
> > probably require some IPv4 address space during the transition from
> > IPv4 to IPv6. I think the whole community will be in a lot of trouble
> > if we make a policy that makes it impossible for new entrants to
> > participate in a dual-stack world.
>
> Andreas Schachtner <Andreas at Schachtner.eu> wrote:
> > IMHO, the "one size fits all" approach doesn't seem the right way to
> > go.
>
> you're right, of course.  but the problem is, nothing will fit all.  we
> are out of ipv4 space.  concepts such as meeting needs of existing
> players are now pretty much irrelevant.
>
> randy

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