On 14/04/2011, at 10:47 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 14 apr 2011, at 13:50, Tore Anderson wrote:
This is address space that's now marked as delegated and removed from the pile of unused address space for no obvious reason.
I believe they are using those prefixes for research.
and the delegated-extended file, it appears that these prefixes do count as assigned space like any other assignment. I would assume that when the research project is over, they will be returned to the free pool and assigned under the last /8 policy
That is extremely curious. How can they justify taking 4 million addresses for research two days before running out of regularly allocatable address space? They could have taken that /10 out of the final /8 rather than taking it from the last scraps of regular space if they really need a /10 for research, which is already dubious in and of itself.
Of course they didn't bother to respond to my request for information about all of this.
The addresses were "in flight" to the recipient and got caught up in a set of scripted processes that inappropriately assigned them into the debogon project for a couple of days while some related administrative processes were underway. Our apologies for the temporary confusion -- and we promise do better next time! :-) And yes, APNIC is indeed down to the last /8 - <http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/final-8> contains the announcement Also, our apologies for not getting back to Iljitsch's request for information sooner - we have been somewhat busy in the last few days! thanks, Geoff