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Recovery of unused address space

A significant amount of historical address space registered in the APNIC Whois Database is not announced to the global routing table.

To recover these globally unrouted resources and place them back in the free pool for reallocation to other networks, APNIC will contact networks responsible for historical address space in the APNIC region that has not been globally routed since 1 January 1998.

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Objectives

To recover unused historical IPv4 addresses in the Asia Pacific region

  • Historical address space
    address space allocated prior to the establishment of service agreements by APNIC
  • Potential target for hijacking
    maybe used for hacking, spamming etc.,