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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Julien Goodwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ausnog@studio442.com.au" target="_blank">ausnog@studio442.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I did some analysis of this a while back:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://laptop006.livejournal.com/52380.html" target="_blank">http://laptop006.livejournal.com/52380.html</a><br>
<br>
My summary was:<br>
"In terms of the coming IPv4 exhaustion we have 817 allocated /16's<br>
completely unused, for over 5.3M IP addresses, or ~3.2 entire /8's,<br>
giving, at the current consumption rate[6], just under two and a half<br>
months more IPv4[7]."<br>
<br>
On 25/01/13 16:58, Daniel Pearson wrote:<br>
> With all the interest in IP’s I thought it would be good to share this<br>
> little story.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> A while back 6-8 months ago I did some digging and found a spare /16 not<br>
> being used…. Yep that’s right a /16 with not one active resource on it.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> I approached the owner who is no longer in business but found the<br>
> administrators and asked if they can release it back to the pool and at<br>
> the same time transfer me a /20. They refused point blank and said they<br>
> would be holding onto it as it could one day be worth lots!<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> After talking with APNIC about it I was told *(verbally) that they can<br>
> hold onto them even if they have no proven use for them…. So I wonder<br>
> how many of these are out there.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> What really annoys me is we are running out and are using every address<br>
> sparingly and here is a company who no longer exists holding onto a /16<br>
> as one day it might be worth something….. go figure.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> How many other examples of this exist?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Discuss!<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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