Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-12-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* John Curran: I agree with Chris; this (and any other returns) won't change the IPv4 depletion/IPv6 deployment timeline substantially, I guess there are a lots of unused assignments within provider-dependent address space. In my experience with a couple of LIRs, none of them was very eager

ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread John Curran
FYI, /John https://www.arin.net/announcements/2010/20101020.html Posted: Wednesday, 20 October 2010 ARIN today recognizes Interop, an organization with a long-standing presence in the Internet industry, for returning its unneeded Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address space.

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Randy Bush
i think this is cool, but ... ARIN will follow global policy at that time and return it to the global free pool or distribute the space to those organizations in the ARIN region with documented need, as appropriate. i know the us has the world series, but global arin region randy

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread John Curran
On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Randy Bush wrote: i think this is cool, but ... ARIN will follow global policy at that time and return it to the global free pool or distribute the space to those organizations in the ARIN region with documented need, as appropriate. i know the us has the

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Randy Bush
ARIN will follow global policy at that time and return it to the global free pool or distribute the space to those organizations in the ARIN region with documented need, as appropriate. i know the us has the world series, but global arin region The problem is that we haven't been able to

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Joel Esler
Now, if we could get everyone that has these gigantic /8's (or multiple of them) that aren't using them to give some back, that'd be great. Thank you interop for setting the example. Joel On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: Thank you Interop - for performing an outstanding act

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread John Curran
On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: Thank you Interop - for performing an outstanding act of altruism. John, could you provide more details at this stage on how much address space was returned to ARIN? INTEROP is retaining 2 /16 blocks for existing usage; i.e. more than

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Jeroen Massar
[John, is 45.127.0.0/16 one of the two blocks they keep, or is it hijacked already? :) ] On 2010-10-20 17:11, Joel Esler wrote: Now, if we could get everyone that has these gigantic /8's (or multiple of them) that aren't using them to give some back, that'd be great. The problem with that is

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: Thank you Interop - for performing an outstanding act of altruism. John, could you provide more details at this stage on how much address space was returned to ARIN? less than 3 months supply at the going drain rate.

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Joel Esler joel.es...@me.com wrote: Now, if we could get everyone that has these gigantic /8's (or multiple of them) that aren't using them to give some back, that'd be great. it's nice that interop did a nice thing here, but seriously, this is ~3 months of

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread John Curran
On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: Thank you Interop - for performing an outstanding act of altruism. John, could you provide more details at this stage on how much address space was returned to

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread John Curran
On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: it's nice that interop did a nice thing here, but seriously, this is ~3 months of usage... there is no saving the move to v6, the bottom's going to fall out on or about june 2011 it seems. I agree with Chris; this (and any other

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:28 AM, John Curran jcur...@arin.net wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: less than 3 months supply at the going drain rate. Not to be depressing, but a /8 (or 99% of one :-) is potentially less than one month's drain on the global IPv4

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread John Curran
On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: The problem with that is indeed in that little part about aren't using them, if even only 50% is in use because one allocated it quite sparsely you won't be able to quickly clean it up and return it. Correct. It might make sense to do so,

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread John Curran
On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: yes, sorry.. since this was returned to ARIN, I assumed the ARIN region drain rate. Ah, good point. It may end up in the global pool, so comparison to either drain rate is quite reasonable. /John

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Joe Maimon
Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Nick Hilliardn...@foobar.org wrote: Thank you Interop - for performing an outstanding act of altruism. John, could you provide more details at this stage on how much address space was returned to ARIN? less than 3 months supply

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Joel Esler wrote: Now, if we could get everyone that has these gigantic /8's (or multiple of them) that aren't using them to give some back, that'd be great. Thank you interop for setting the example. Sure, it would be a nice gesture if MIT/HP/Ford/Xerox/Halliburton/etc

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Ernie Rubi
I don't think ARIN (or any other RIR) wants people to think this way. Appreciation and value are words that most folks at ICANN don't want network engineers to associate with IP addresses. The real value is in routing; is the party line. STLS to me is kind of double speak, ARIN says: this

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread John Curran
On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Ernie Rubi wrote: I don't think ARIN (or any other RIR) wants people to think this way. Ernie - ARIN doesn't have a view on how people should think. It does have an interest in making sure that number resources policies that are adopted by community are

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread John Curran
On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: So would it be more logical for all those willing to return do so only after depletion when the impact and resulting appreciation is likely to be greater? It would be best for folks who can return address space to do so as soon as possible,

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/20/2010 11:20 AM, John Curran wrote: ARIN recognizes that such parties could use the specified transfer policy to receive compensation despite being able to return the space, but overall the community recommended proceeding because the benefit to overall utilization was deemed worthwhile.

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Stephen D. Strowes
Interested to know how this will show in the IANA v4 address space registry. Will 045/8 soon appear as belonging to ARIN, since it is now not Interop's? Also makes me wonder if there are historical versions of this registry available. If reclamation of large blocks such as this becomes

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread John Curran
On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Stephen D. Strowes wrote: Interested to know how this will show in the IANA v4 address space registry. Will 045/8 soon appear as belonging to ARIN, since it is now not Interop's? Correct. Also note that the concept of a single RIR managing each /8 only applies

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 10/20/10 7:34 AM, John Curran wrote: With less than 5% of the IPv4 address space left in the global free pool, ARIN warns that Interop's return will not significantly extend the life of IPv4. ARIN continues to emphasize the need for all Internet stakeholders to adopt the next generation of

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Stephen D. Strowes
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 17:40 +0100, John Curran wrote: Also makes me wonder if there are historical versions of this registry available. If reclamation of large blocks such as this becomes commonplace, will many of the legacy allocations simply become footnotes? (In the registry document,

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/20/2010 7:13 AM, Randy Bush wrote: i think this is cool, but ... ARIN will follow global policy at that time and return it to the global free pool or distribute the space to those organizations in the ARIN region with documented need, as appropriate. i know the us has the world series,

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread John Curran
On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: Not to stir an already boiling over pot and all, but is there any kind of report or documentation on releasing of space from countries other then the North American region? You're not going to find a lot of large allocations which are

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Will Hargrave
On 20/10/10 17:47, Brielle Bruns wrote: Not to stir an already boiling over pot and all, but is there any kind of report or documentation on releasing of space from countries other then the North American region? Really it's mainly US govt agencies, defence contractors, etc from the dawn of

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Brandon Ross
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Jeroen Massar wrote: [John, is 45.127.0.0/16 one of the two blocks they keep, or is it hijacked already? :) ] I can authoritatively say, yes it is. We (Interop) are not announcing any part of 45/8 at the moment, and don't plan to do so until the return is complete.

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Joel Esler
On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Nick Hilliardn...@foobar.org wrote: Thank you Interop - for performing an outstanding act of altruism. John, could you provide more details at this stage on how much address space

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread David Conrad
Joel, On Oct 20, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Joel Esler wrote: There are lots of places that /8, and multiple ones at that that aren't using them. Which /8s are those? Thanks, -drc

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Brandon Ross
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Brandon Ross wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Jeroen Massar wrote: [John, is 45.127.0.0/16 one of the two blocks they keep, or is it hijacked already? :) ] I can authoritatively say, yes it is. I spoke too soon. It is not hijacked, it's simply old cruft from an old show

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - From: Randy Carpenter rcar...@network1.net To: Joel Esler joel.es...@me.com Cc: North American Network Operators Group nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, 21 October, 2010 10:00:25 AM Subject: Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address

Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 03:23:48PM -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: I remember writing (complaining) about it in a thread back in April, appreciated. I still don't know why anyone would complain, although I do thank Interop for their generosity. Here's some truth: 1) At

RE: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Tony Hain
John Curran wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: yes, sorry.. since this was returned to ARIN, I assumed the ARIN region drain rate. Ah, good point. It may end up in the global pool, so comparison to either drain rate is quite reasonable. For what it's worth,

RE: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

2010-10-20 Thread Frank Bulk
I wonder if we'll see a decrease in hijacked space because there's less unassigned space, or if because of the IPv4 block scarcity, it will occur more often. I can see aggressive hijackers looking for unused (but assigned) blocks as small as a /24 and advertising them. Frank -Original