* Tore On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no> wrote:
* Andrew Latham
I have sadly witnessed a growing number of businesses with /24s moving to colocation/aws networks and not giving up their unused network space. I assume this will come into play soon.
A couple of /24s being returned wouldn't make a significant difference when it comes to IPv4 depletion. Heck, not even a couple of /8s would. Trying to reclaim and redistribute unused space would be a tremendous waste of effort.
If I can walk around a smallish town and point at 5 businesses like this its a possible solution. I am not claiming a few /24s will do, I am claiming that there are many (for larger values of many) companies like this.
I have already read the news of blackmarket sales of network allocations in Europe.
Interesting. Do you have a link or some other kind of reference?
I did a quick search and they are easy to find. Many news articles about Microsoft buying network allocations at auction to set a price of ~$11USD per IP. One tangent article that I liked was http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/07/16/ipv4-addresses-now-dr...
Tore
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