Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis () kurtis pp se>]

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On 2004-11-16, at 08.28, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> I have seen IPv6 prefixes, that were allocated and then returned, being
> allocated to another organization with somewhat a period of 6 months in
> between.

Good!

> Thus one can assume that ASN will be re-used too. Of course I
> think that the few couple of prefixes I happen to have seen this
> happening with where 'given back' from the originally owning
> organization and not reclaimed from them. Meaning that the RIR knew 
> that
> it was not in use anymore. Fortunately there are of course systems like
> RIS (http://ris.ripe.net) to figure this out. Then again, allocations,
> be they ASN's, IPv6 or IPv4 prefixes, are not only allocated for the
> public internet usage, but solely to be globally unique.

I am less interested in how these resources where reclaimed. I think 
that shouldn't matter. I think it's better that we start reclaiming and 
reusing to gain some experience. Again, that will be so much easier to 
do sooner than later...

- - kurtis -

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