If the registries would start allocating address space that has been recovered from the swamp to this sort of company, then the problem would be solved. If a company needs multihoming capability but will never use more than a /23 then what is wrong with reusing swamp space?
-- Michael Dillon - E-mail: michael@memra.com
What swamp? There is active space and dormant space. Registries are generally provisioning out of active space (by definition) and the dormant space is delegated space that is not being provisioned from -at this time-. Current dormant space does have some interstital gaps of undelegated space. This is true -all- the way down the delegation heirarchy. (retorical question; have you used 100% of your cidr block?) There are efforts to develop a process to identify and reclaim prefixes that are inactive and are expected to remain so regardless of the active or dormant state of the block. --bill