In a message written on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:46:52AM +0100, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/clarification-on-reallocated...
From the article: ] The address space was quarantined for six weeks before being returned to ] the RIPE NCC's available pool of IPv4 address space. It was then ] randomly reallocated to a new resource holder according to normal ] allocation procedures. ] ] As the RIPE NCC nears IPv4 exhaustion, it will reduce the quarantine ] period of returned address space accordingly to ensure that there is no ] more IPv4 address space available before the last /8 is reached. The ] RIPE NCC recognises that this shortened quarantine could lead to ] routability problems and offers its members assistance to reduce this. While I understand that in the face of IPv4 exhaustion long quarantine periods are probably no longer a good idea, I think 6 weeks is shockingly short. I also think to blanket apply the quarantine is a little short sighted, there are cases that need a longer cooling off period, and this may be one of them. I think the RIPE membership, and indeed the policy making bodies of all RIR's should look at their re-allocation policies with this case in mind and see if a corner case like this doesn't present a surprising result. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/