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] The address space was quarantined for six weeks before being returned to
] the RIPE NCC's available pool of IPv4 address space. It was then
] randomly reallocated to a new resource holder according to normal
] allocation procedures.
] 
] As the RIPE NCC nears IPv4 exhaustion, it will reduce the quarantine
] period of returned address space accordingly to ensure that there is no
] more IPv4 address space available before the last /8 is reached. The
] RIPE NCC recognises that this shortened quarantine could lead to
] routability problems and offers its members assistance to reduce this.

While I understand that in the face of IPv4 exhaustion long quarantine
periods are probably no longer a good idea, I think 6 weeks is
shockingly short.  I also think to blanket apply the quarantine is
a little short sighted, there are cases that need a longer cooling
off period, and this may be one of them.

I think the RIPE membership, and indeed the policy making bodies
of all RIR's should look at their re-allocation policies with this
case in mind and see if a corner case like this doesn't present a
surprising result.

-- 
       Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440
        PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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