I'm sure the telesales people are making those phone calls as this thread goes on. The FDIC has this down to a science with banks. The bank closes on Friday evening, the FDIC swoops in, and by Monday all the accounts are moved to a new bank. FEDWIRE reroutes all the traffic to the new service provider, and the checks "in-float" don't even bounce. Besides the potential route table explosion as the network is deagregated, another problem is how do you verify who has what authority to change which circuit id, ip address, etc. Does everyone just start grabbing address blocks, do providers include the CIDR block as a line item on the invoice. On Tue, 03 April 2001, Randy Bush wrote:

what if an isp with a lot of dedicated line customers in old A space takes the dive and a few thousand of their customers come to isps each asking to have 38.42.666.0/24 or whatever routed?

mirjam says o route them now, forcing instant renumbering would add insult to injury o give them the normal 90 days to renumber

and she's never led me wrong so far.