Forcible reclamation?

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> If a block is not being advertised, then it is not filling router table
> space.
> 
> And since our underlying problem is router table space, not the number
> prefixes available, revocation won't help fix the underlying problem.

If there were no shortage of address space, every multihomed ISP could be
given a /19 :)

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