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Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM

From: Andrew Latham <lathama () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:18:25 -0400

* Tore

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Tore Anderson <tore () fud no> wrote:

* Andrew Latham

I have sadly witnessed a growing number of businesses with /24s
moving to colocation/aws networks and not giving up their unused
network space. I assume this will come into play soon.


A couple of /24s being returned wouldn't make a significant difference
when it comes to IPv4 depletion. Heck, not even a couple of /8s would.
Trying to reclaim and redistribute unused space would be a tremendous
waste of effort.


If I can walk around a smallish town and point at 5 businesses like
this its a possible solution.  I am not claiming a few /24s will do, I
am claiming that there are many (for larger values of many) companies
like this.

I have already read the news of blackmarket sales of network
allocations in Europe.


Interesting. Do you have a link or some other kind of reference?


I did a quick search and they are easy to find. Many news articles
about Microsoft buying network allocations at auction to set a price
of ~$11USD per IP. One tangent article that I liked was
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/07/16/ipv4-addresses-now-driving-hosting-deals/

Tore


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~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lathama () gmail com http://lathama.net ~

Current thread:

"It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Valdis Kletnieks (Apr 23)
- Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Leo Bicknell (Apr 23)
  - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM staticsafe (Apr 24)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Todd Underwood (Apr 24)
- Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Andrew Latham (Apr 23)
  - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 24)
  - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Tore Anderson (Apr 24)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 24)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Tore Anderson (Apr 24)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Andrew Latham (Apr 24)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Lee Howard (Apr 24)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Andrew Latham (Apr 24)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM David Conrad (Apr 24)
    - RE: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Frank Bulk (iname.com) (Apr 25)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Tore Anderson (Apr 24)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Andrew Latham (Apr 24)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Andrew Latham (Apr 24)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Christopher Morrow (Apr 24)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM John Curran (Apr 26)
    - Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM Andrew Latham (Apr 24)

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