Jay,
We were talking about the legacy disbursements here at the office
much of the day. It would certainly be *nice* if some of the folks who
were granted a class A back in the day would throw the unused parts back
in the community bin. I don't think its a good idea to try and force
the organizations in question to do so though and I'd guess that IBM and
the others we've mentioned all have deeper pockets for legal teams than
ARIN or most of the backbone providers.
On 2/3/2011 3:55 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Helms"<khe...@ispalliance.net>
My 2 cents, in the few cases that we've been involved with that dealt
with reclaiming space the backbone providers have universally followed
what is in the ARIN database. If you need a block routed they generally
will not take action until the SWIP is complete and the same is true
when pulling space back that had been in use. Since the major ISPs (and
most of the minor ones as well) filter the BGP they get from customer
they can prevent the advertisement of blocks that are disputed.
Stipulated.
But are they going to go up against someone big?
Do Lilly, DuPont and Merck need /8? HP need a /7?
What if one of those blocks was the subject here?
Apple?
I will in turn stipulate that these events are not likely. But they're
certainly not impossible.
Cheers,
-- jra
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