Doesn't matter one bit. Why do people trot out this hilariously wrong argument every time IPv4 comes up? ARIN was burning 2 /8s per month before they ran out.

Doesn't matter one bit. Why do people trot out this hilariously wrong argument every time IPv4 comes up? ARIN was burning 2 /8s per month before they ran out. Let me repeat that: 2 /8s PER MONTH. There is no clawback scheme that can make any amount of difference. At best we buy ourselves 1-2 years. In reality, taking back all the large unused blocks would buy us months. Furthermore almost all of those large blocks were handed out before the RIRs existed and are owned so there is no legal mechanism to take them back even if it could make a difference.