On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Jed Laundry
Evening,
Pardon my ignorance of the APNIC list discussions, but is the point to:
1. allow /24s to be used by different ASes for short periods of time to handle peak demands? I can only think of mobile IP providers in different timezones being a "sensible" example of this.
At the moment it's too early to tell what the end case for leasing will be. We've had a large amount of talk about transfers/sales of IP addresses and there is a well defined market established to facilitate this. Over the last 6 months, more and more advertisements have been made for the 'lease' of IP addresses rather than their sale. To date it has been difficult to establish what the terms of these leases would be.
2. to allow ASes to claim a need for addresses based on short term customer uses? This is an edge case; I've run a couple of events where I needed a /26 for a weekend, which was taken from the provider's existing pool.
3. to mark addresses as leased (i.e. cloud servers) to avoid blacklist hell for the next poor unfortunate soul to use them? (glhf?)
An interesting point. One IP broker who spoke in Xi'an explained that one of the services they offer is to establish the 'history' of a particular range. The equivalent of a background check or a LIM report for those who have bought property. You don't want to end up being the owner of IP addresses who took too many drugs in their youth. There are a lot of issues to think about here. Jamie brings up some interesting ones too. I'll address those next. Dean