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

Antonio Querubin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.v6ops,gmane.ietf.ops
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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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