[131081] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Wed Oct 20 11:16:58 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:16:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4CBEFFFA.1030002@foobar.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Thank you Interop - for performing an outstanding act of altruism.
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> John, could you provide more details at this stage on how much address sp=
ace was returned to ARIN?
INTEROP is retaining 2 /16 blocks for existing usage;=20
i.e. more than 99% of the /8 block is being returned.
To the extent that parties have unused address space
beyond their usage and foreseeable need, we encourage=20
them to return the space so it may be reissued to=20
those parties with need. This is in keeping with=20
global policies on Internet address space management.
/John
John Curran=20
President and CEO
ARIN
