On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 07:30 -0400, RJ Atkinson wrote: > Earlier, Per wrote: > % How hard is it the internet registries to ask a statistically > % significant selection of their clients (LIRs) and known > % legacy-allocation holders if they're willing to give up some of > % their allocated blocks, how much of it, and on which conditions? > % > % They haven't even tried, ... > > Actually, you have been unfair to the RIRs. > They have tried this. I believe they continue to try this. > > So far, they have been able to get several /8 blocks back from US DoD. > They also were able to get a /8 back from Stanford University. >
I'm aware of those efforts, and they are appreciated. Yet, numbers so far are nowhere near anything that can make a real difference. > This is all public information. It was presented (at least) at the > last RIPE meeting held in Amsterdam. I would guess the presentation > slides can be found online some place. > I followed it live (webcast) so I'm fully aware. The "market survey" that I described that can give some indication of a different future with potentially masses of reclaimed or re-sold space is missing, //per -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
