[arin-ppml] The Library Book Approach to IPv4 Scarcity

Jo Rhett jrhett at svcolo.com
Thu Oct 30 15:58:27 EDT 2008


At which point I would have chastized any peer who kept sending your  
announcement as valid.

Yes, it means we have to do better at filtering.  This is not a bad  
thing.

On Oct 29, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> How do you recover space when the org advertising it does not want to
> give it up?
>
> Fact is, I was rather curious myself about these situations
> so when we got our portable allocation years ago I kept advertising  
> a /23
> from one
> of our old blocks after renumbering out of it just to see what would  
> happen.
> About a year later the block was finally assigned.  Trust me, if I had
> wanted to be a jerk about it, it would have gotten pretty bad for the
> org that got the numbers.
>
> Ted
>

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