On 10/20/10 11:34 AM, John Curran wrote:
On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
Not to stir an already boiling over pot and all, but is there any kind of report or documentation on releasing of space from countries other then the North American region?
You're not going to find a lot of large allocations which are unused in other regions, predominantly because these allocations where made at the earliest time of the Internet to organizations that were mostly in the ARIN region.
True, I didn't take that into account. :)
I'd hate to think that the rest of the world thinks that the US should be the one to give up all their space so that they can continue to hand out space like candy... While it is true that some regions seem to be experiencing a real surge in IPv4 demand recently, it's also important to remember that*all* of the address space is for the Internet community at large, based on documented need, on a first-come, first-serve basis. It's actually "global Internet address space"; this is a fundamental principle of the Internet Registry system as noted in RFC 2050.
Understood, I'm just expressing concern over the current situation of IPv4 exhaustion. As a spam fighter, I tend to see bursts of spam from newly allocated space in various regions which leaves me scratching my head as to why some places keep asking for more space and getting it so easily. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org