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Why hold onto addresses you're not using? This is against the allocation requirements and lead to the IPv4 exhaustion we have now.

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If you have an ARIN allocation, there is no reason you would ever want to decrease the amount of addresses you own. You own them.

Whether you own them or not is subject to a lot of debate and not clear cut. If you owned them, why would you need to fool ARIN into believing they are being utilised?

The agreement you make to get an allocation requires a certain level of utilization depending on the size of the block to prevent squatting and exhaustion of resources. This is a good thing, and if it was actually respected we wouldn't be in a mad rush to migrate to IPv6.

"Mad rush" - heh. I'd hate to see how long something rolled out at a leisurely pace would take!

> IPv6 is intended to replace IPv4. In December 1998, IPv6 became a Draft Standard for the IETF, who subsequently ratified it as an Internet Standard on 14 July 2017

it only took 20 years to standardize after all. we're seriously rushing here!

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