Forcible reclamation?

[Karl Denninger]

On Tue, Jul 08, 1997 at 12:29:19PM -0500, Larry Vaden wrote:
> At 11:03 AM 7/8/97 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
> >
> >The existing space is adequate for a *long* time, provided that we do
> >reasonable things with it.
> >
> >If we start to run out, we can go take back all the people's space who
> >haven't met even 20% of the current requirements (ie: actual utilization
> >below 10% of allocated) -- that should reclaim all of the existing Class "A"
> >addresses, which is 1/4 of the total allocated, and 1/2 of the total
> >possible IPV4 space.
> 
> If I understand you correctly, you would move to reclaim, say, a /8 with 0%
> utilization before a /16 with 0% utilization before a /19 with 33%
> utilization, correct?
> 
> 
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Of course.

The greatest good and the most results should come first.

This is assuming the goal is to obtain address space (ie: we're "out" and
need to do so).

Again, the goal drives the process, not the other way around.

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