It is positive that many of these legacy holder returned some of their
unneeded IPv4 resources in the past. However I personally believe it is
something negative that there is still a fair amount of these addresses
unused and not even announced to the DFZ as if they were waiting for
some big Internet event to happen.
I really don't mind Legacy Holders to keep addresses that were assigned
to them ages ago as long they have a justification for using them. In
the other hand I am unable to believe any organization in the entire
world that is not a Telecommunications or a Hosting Company is able to
technically justify more and a single /8.
Fernando
On 07/08/2022 15:06, John Curran wrote:
On 6 Aug 2022, at 10:00 PM, Steven Ryerse
<[email protected]> wrote:
...
If this community wants more resources, the more obvious place to
find them isn't some relatively small block held by an organization
or individual that might be deceased, this community could try and
convince the DoD to release some portion of their very large /8
assignments. That could be fertile ground. Who knows how many IPv4
addresses they are actually using and need.
I've never heard of it happening but it wouldn't surprise me if ARIN
has quietly discussed this possibility with the DoD as some point.
We wouldn't hear about it unless resources were actually released.
Already happened (more than a decade ago): the US DoD, BBN, Stanford,
Interop, etc. all returned some of their unneeded IPv4 resources after
being approached by ARIN – the address space was returned, held for a
period, and then issued by the policies in place at that time.
Thanks,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers
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