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From: "Randy Carpenter" <rcarpen@network1.net> To: "Joel Esler" <joel.esler@me.com> Cc: "North American Network Operators Group" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thursday, 21 October, 2010 10:00:25 AM Subject: Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block ----- Original Message -----
On Oct 20, 2010, at 4:58 PM, David Conrad wrote:
On Oct 20, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Joel Esler wrote:
There are lots of places that /8, and multiple ones at that that aren't using them.
Which /8s are those?
As someone else mentioned the Gov't has /8's they aren't using the whole of.
That would be incredibly fun to try to recover. I would imagine converting to IPv6, then coming up with a new standard, and converting to that would be an order of magnitude easier than figuring out a way to recover IPv4 space from the US government.
Ask a russian spammer to recover it, may be?