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Re: Sad IPv4 story?


From: Benson Schliesser <bensons () queuefull net>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:05:12 -0600


On Dec 9, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Mark Blackman wrote:
On Dec 9, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
We're going to be hearing a lot more of these. It's the nature of finite resources, and of human nature when faced 
with them. At some point, this will find its way into courtrooms under the rubric of a barrier to entry. It already 
has in terms of antitrust when a company wanted to move its PA prefix to different upstream.

I've had transit service pulled, so the provider can reclaim the /21 that was bundled with the transit.

I'm sorry to hear about that...  Do you know why they reclaimed the block?  E.g. was it used to support a "higher 
margin" service for another customer?

-Benson



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