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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQZnoqqarNKXTPFCVEQJ9fgCgivxjgO4casQ1yELuOB8xfN0dPXIAn1u9 Wjre0YUoiZDvE1GNLuTzSPgM =Ccg6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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