* Will Hargrave
On the issue of assignment size, it does seem we can’t go on with assigning more /24s as the minimum. Not sure if there’s a land-grab going on but just today alone another four /24s were handed out to an operator for use in the Nordic region - with two /24s for Norway alone, a country whose largest IX at present contains under sixty AS. That seems wasteful.
Being quite familiar with the Norwegian networking community I can assure you that this does indeed seem very wasteful (and so would /26s have been).
(Earlier, Tore wrote:)
By the way, last I checked there were a number of unassigned fragments smaller than /24 rotting away in the NCC's inventory, due to there being no policy that allowed for their assignment. IX-es are one of the very few places where those can be used, so they could be all added to the reserved IXP pool and actually do some good there.
How much of this ‘space dust’ is available? (i.e is it worth the effort?)
Currently about four thousand addresses, if I'm not mistaken: $ awk '-F|' '$2 == "" && $3 == "ipv4" && $5 < 256 {print; SUM += $5} END {print SUM}' < delegated-ripencc-extended-latest ripencc||ipv4|193.34.196.128|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.34.199.128|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.58.0.48|8||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.164.232.96|64||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.164.232.224|32||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.188.134.128|16||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.188.134.200|56||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.192.12.0|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.201.145.128|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.201.147.96|32||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.201.147.192|32||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.201.148.128|64||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.201.149.0|64||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.201.149.128|64||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.201.150.192|64||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.201.151.64|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.201.155.0|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.201.157.128|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.201.159.0|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.218.205.224|32||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.218.207.64|16||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.243.183.0|64||reserved ripencc||ipv4|193.243.183.128|64||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.42.47.0|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.93.123.0|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.117.50.0|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.117.55.0|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.153.153.0|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.153.157.0|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.153.157.160|32||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.153.158.0|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.153.159.128|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.180.226.0|152||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.180.226.160|96||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.246.39.0|96||reserved ripencc||ipv4|194.246.39.192|32||reserved ripencc||ipv4|195.13.37.128|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|195.35.104.0|32||reserved ripencc||ipv4|195.60.80.0|96||reserved ripencc||ipv4|195.60.81.128|64||reserved ripencc||ipv4|195.60.83.0|64||reserved ripencc||ipv4|195.60.83.128|32||reserved ripencc||ipv4|195.60.84.128|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|195.60.85.128|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|195.60.91.128|128||reserved ripencc||ipv4|195.60.92.192|64||reserved ripencc||ipv4|195.60.93.64|64||reserved 4056 Tore