Jarno, this is exactly why the fixed charge is suggested - to make
the cost of bulk hoarding significant.
And no, I don't want to imagine such a bug - I have more confidence than
that in IANA and the organisations IANA delegates to.
Brian
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> Thomas Narten wrote:
> > why we can't make such assignments permanent. (Note: I'd agree with
> > you that the assignments shouldn't be permanent if there was a case to
> > be made that it may become necessary to reclaim them at some future
> > time. Is there?)
> >
>
> What if someone manages to hoard the address space and then starts to sell them?
> Assume a bug in the system managing the allocations and someone exploiting it and
> getting 1/2 of the whole address space that they now "own" for good.
>
> Maybe there should be a notion of reclaiming prefixes that should not have been
> allocated in the first place?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jarno
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