On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org> wrote:
David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> writes:
whether either DEC or HP could have qualified for a /8 under current rules, since the basis for these (pre-RIR) allocations was that they needed more than a /16 and these were the days before CIDR. (at the time i received the /8 allocation at DEC, we had a half dozen /16's several dozen /24's that
With them not requiring a /8 in the first place (after CIDR); one begins to wonder how much of their /8 allocations they actually touched in any meaningful way. Perhaps the RIRs should personally and directly ask each /8 legacy holder to provide account of their utilization (which portions of the allocation is used, how many hosts), and ASK for each unused /22 [or shorter] to be returned. The legacy holders might (or might not) refuse. They might (or might not) tell the RIRs "Hell no" In any case, the registry should ASK and publish an indication for each legacy /8 at least. So the community will know which (if any) legacy /8 holders are likely to be returning the community's IPv4 addresses that they obtained but don't have need for. The community should also know which /8 legacy holders say "Hell no, we're keeping all our /8s, and not telling you how much of the community's IPv4 resources we're actually using". -- -JH