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Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

From: John Curran <jcurran () arin net>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:37:55 -0400

On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:


The problem with that is indeed in that little part about "aren't using
them", if even only 50% is in use because one allocated it quite
sparsely you won't be able to quickly clean it up and return it.


Correct.  It might make sense to do so, if you could recover the costs of 
the work involved.  This is the reasoning behind the Specified Transfer
policy that was recently adopted; it allows (once we're at depletion) for
parties to free up address space and get compensated.  It's goal is not to
provide a windfall for those holding unused space; in theory, those with
unused address space should be returning it already if they can easily do
so.

One can of course wonder if they are supposed to use that or not.
The fact that they do not have reverse DNS delegation for it says quite
a bit already of course.


One of the other benefits of improved utilization for returned space
is less space which is "sitting idle" and available to be hijacked.

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN

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ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block John Curran (Oct 20)
- Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Randy Bush (Oct 20)
  - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block John Curran (Oct 20)
    - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Randy Bush (Oct 20)
  - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Doug Barton (Oct 20)
- Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Nick Hilliard (Oct 20)
  - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Joel Esler (Oct 20)
    - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Jeroen Massar (Oct 20)
    - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block John Curran (Oct 20)
    - RE: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Frank Bulk (Oct 20)
    - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Brandon Ross (Oct 20)
    - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Brandon Ross (Oct 20)
    - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Christopher Morrow (Oct 20)
    - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block John Curran (Oct 20)
    - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Justin M. Streiner (Oct 20)
  - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block John Curran (Oct 20)
    - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Jeroen van Aart (Oct 20)
    - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Majdi S. Abbas (Oct 20)
  - Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block Christopher Morrow (Oct 20)

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