2 Apr
2010
2 Apr
'10
6:41 p.m.
On Friday 02 April 2010 06:14:33 pm Owen DeLong wrote:
This is where Legacy vs. RIR becomes meaningful. Legacy holders have no contractual obligation to return unused space. RIR recipients, on the other hand, do.
Some legacy holders might, I imagine, be 'squatting' on that legacy space and are getting ready to 'sell' some to the highest bidder, generating who knows how much revenue, if their agreement allows them to do so. A few of those same legacy holders might even want to impede IPv6 uptake to make their /8 more valuable when the crunch comes. Perhaps I'm too paranoid. But I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of these possibilities (in my case, however, I have no legacy space, and wouldn't go that route even if I did).