[address-policy-wg] 2016-03 Discussion Period extended until 15 July 2016 (Locking Down the Final /8 Policy)

Hi

To best of my knowledge, most of large return has been done by none profit org.

Most for profit org and some gov on the other hand, are choosing to sell it 


> On 16 Jun 2016, at 18:17, Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda at icann.org> wrote:
> 
> Tomasz Slaski wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Jim, please stop kidding. Do you know anyone, who returned
>> the addresses to RIPE? In my 25 year career in IT I have not met
>> anyone who did.
> 
> I'm neither supporting nor opposing the proposed policy. However, I note that 
> there are a number of cases where organizations with large blocks of IPv4 
> address space they no longer need have returned that space. Several /8s were 
> returned to global pool of unallocated IPv4 address space in 2007 and 2008. 
> More recently, Interop returned more than 99% of a /8 to ARIN:
> 
> https://www.arin.net/announcements/2010/20101020.html
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Leo Vegoda