On 13/04/2010, at 3:58 PM, Daniel Richards wrote:
I believe APNIC is going to reserve the spaces in question as "APNIC R&D" or something similar.
Someone correct me if i'm wrong.
You are right The recommendations at the end of the report are being implemented. Five /24s where the traffic is exceptionally high are being withheld from general allocation to allow further experimentation. If things change with these "toxic" /24s we'll release them for allocation, but that's not something that will be done in the near future. A larger set of /16s listed in the report's recommendations are to be marked as allocated to APNIC R&D to allow further short term experimentation in the distribution of unsolicited background traffic to these addresses to be conducted by APNIC in collaboration with interested researchers and the operational community. The experimentation would be conducted in the period April – October 2010, and a followup report on recommended longer term reservations from this set of addresses be provided at the end of this period. thanks, Geoff Huston APNIC