Hello Tom, Le 10/05/2016 17:51, Tom Hill a écrit :
Are there any figures to back up the assertion that "crooks" are eating away at 185/8? I don't think I've ever seen any concrete evidence of a widespread problem as yet.
Did you recently got an inetnum ? Nowadays, the minute you get a block, you get 10 free e-mails asking to lease a /24 out of it. When your business is growing and your network is running off address space' vapors, you're looking out for any oportunity to recover unused adresses (really easy to do when you only got a mere /22 : usually none). Then turn to the "Transfer (Blackmarket) Listing Service" and get indecent (side) offers for newly assigned prefixes put up for rent. I don't need numbers to see there's something wrong : a market for adress space must NOT exist. The listing service must be dismantled, and no one should be able to profit from wrongly privatised public domain, period. Unused inetnums must return to pool, and LIR's able to justify their needs _periodicaly_ should be able to get some more juice off the available pool, if they're also contributing to getting us all out of this mess by actively promoting IPv6. Or am I a bit too commie for this discussion ? -- Jérôme Nicolle