Re: /8 end user assignment?

hi

if i remember correctly, some group in Japan received a /8 as a transition plan to IPv6... details are hazy. sort of like the ARIN thing for experiments, the v4 space was/is supposed to be tied to some equivalent v6 space and after a period (12 months or so) the v4 space was to be returned. Pretty clever as a transition thing, presuming no ill will on the part of the participants.

you are remembering correctly, and there were discussions about this at the last APNIC OPM. details can be found here if you are interested. http://www.apnic.net/meetings/19/programme/sigs/ipv6.html several ASs participated in this so called "large space IPv4 trial usage". --- seiichi kawamura:-)