I had read around the tiime of depletion that ARIN was going to begin audits of allocation utilization to reclaim dormant space for redistribution. Is this not the case?
These allocation auctions, are they scrutinized as far as utilization goes? Say we have a customer who wants to BGP peer, since /24 is the smallest prefix, can the customer purchase the /24 at auction and use it? If they only have a couple routers will ARIN take it away? https://www.ipv4auctions.com/ has 3 /24 for under 4k, in the big scheme of things 4k for an IP4 presence that you arent at the whim of your ISP is not that bad a deal, 100 bucks ARIN initial fee and a yearly 100 bucks. Granted you have to have BGP peers for upstreams, but thats not a huge deal...... unless the investment is taken from you Then again, what about us, I was working on reallocating real IP usage to customers to meet the 80 percent when the depletion happenned, If I was to get all our customers and the minimum infrastructure standardized, wed be about 150% of our current allocation. I should have just put the whole of what wasnt in use on one router and made the request. What if we bought one of those /23 or /22 so we could fully end our NAT fiasco and have a /24 or two handy. of course theyre all tainted and dirty now, it would be like marrying a russian hooker, but theres gotta be an interwebs version of valtrex for that.
