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Re: [v6ops] Heads up - Plea for allocating a /8 to ISPs

Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net> Wed, 17 November 2010 23:30 UTC

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From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Heads up - Plea for allocating a /8 to ISPs
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, David Conrad wrote:

> With respect to the latter, I suspect the last damaging approach would 
> be using something in 44/8. It appears _very_ sparsely populated but 
> given its nature, it's unlikely IANA would be able to recover all of 
> that particular block. Since IANA can't allocate anything but /8s, it is 
> likely forever locked up...

I wouldn't characterize it as unused.  It may be sparsely populated but 
the geographic and organizational dispersion of the 44/8 assignees I think 
makes it very impractical to try to recover reusable portions of it in a 
reasonable amount of time.

Antonio Querubin
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