Excerpts from Per Heldal on Thu, Jun 12, 2008 01:41:47PM +0200: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 07:30 -0400, RJ Atkinson wrote: > > 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.
It's moot. Even if the RIRs could "reclaim" all unused addresses it would only give us a matter of months, while bringing about a significant increase in the number of routes carried in the core earlier than the gray market will. -- 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
