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Kim has stated that her primary function at ARIN will be IP space
reclaimation.  I'm not sure how many large contiguous blocks she will find
at first, but there's no doubt it will do some good and hopefully loosen up
allocations once enough small networks have been reclaimed to form aggregates.

If you'll remember, I argued for atomic netblocks in NANOG a while back and
received no support, even from you, who claim to support the idea.

Stephen


At 17:21 26-06-97 -0500, you wrote:
>This situation will be interesting to watch. I have
>argued that companies should be given a "short-form"
>application to obtain a /18 allocation with the
>understanding that they can not fragment it. With
>this approach, blocks are kept together and if a new
>company goes under a large block is reclaimed.
>
>At the present time there does not seem to be much
>effort to reclaim blocks. For example, an ISP in the
>Chicago area with a /16 (old Class B) recently went
>under, their block will probably be lost in the shuffle.
>This is a waste of resources and it is a shame that
>companies have to spend all of their time and energy
>jumping through hoops to obtain IP addresses when
>blocks are wasting away...


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