On 14/04/2011, at 10:47 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 14 apr 2011, at 13:50, Tore Anderson wrote: > >>> This is address space that's now marked as delegated and removed from >>> the pile of unused address space for no obvious reason. > >> I believe they are using those prefixes for research. > >> and the delegated-extended file, it appears that these prefixes do count >> as assigned space like any other assignment. I would assume that when >> the research project is over, they will be returned to the free pool and >> assigned under the last /8 policy > > That is extremely curious. How can they justify taking 4 million addresses > for research two days before running out of regularly allocatable address > space? They could have taken that /10 out of the final /8 rather than taking > it from the last scraps of regular space if they really need a /10 for > research, which is already dubious in and of itself. > > Of course they didn't bother to respond to my request for information about > all of this. > >
The addresses were "in flight" to the recipient and got caught up in a set of scripted processes that inappropriately assigned them into the debogon project for a couple of days while some related administrative processes were underway. Our apologies for the temporary confusion -- and we promise do better next time! :-) And yes, APNIC is indeed down to the last /8 - <http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/final-8> contains the announcement Also, our apologies for not getting back to Iljitsch's request for information sooner - we have been somewhat busy in the last few days! thanks, Geoff