Draining the Swamp
Most of us who’ve been around the Internet world for a while are familiar with the term ‘Swamp Space’ but for those who aren’t, it refers to those legacy IP addresses that were initially “allocated” under very vague terms back in the Internet dark ages, usually by IANA himself – Jon Postel [1].
Why am I going down this trip on memory lane? Because such swamp space exists today on our network. Our original WA-IX is numbered with space that appears to have been redelegated to someone else.
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