-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-11-16, at 08.28, Jeroen Massar wrote:
I have seen IPv6 prefixes, that were allocated and then returned, being allocated to another organization with somewhat a period of 6 months in between.
Good!
Thus one can assume that ASN will be re-used too. Of course I think that the few couple of prefixes I happen to have seen this happening with where 'given back' from the originally owning organization and not reclaimed from them. Meaning that the RIR knew that it was not in use anymore. Fortunately there are of course systems like RIS (http://ris.ripe.net) to figure this out. Then again, allocations, be they ASN's, IPv6 or IPv4 prefixes, are not only allocated for the public internet usage, but solely to be globally unique.
I am less interested in how these resources where reclaimed. I think that shouldn't matter. I think it's better that we start reclaiming and reusing to gain some experience. Again, that will be so much easier to do sooner than later... - - kurtis - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQZnoqqarNKXTPFCVEQJ9fgCgivxjgO4casQ1yELuOB8xfN0dPXIAn1u9 Wjre0YUoiZDvE1GNLuTzSPgM =Ccg6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----