[131105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen D. Strowes)
Wed Oct 20 12:52:08 2010
From: "Stephen D. Strowes" <sds@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
In-Reply-To: <DAC22F6A-D0E3-4C39-9E2E-602BC4F9FECE@arin.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:52:00 +0100
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 17:40 +0100, John Curran wrote:
> > Also makes me wonder if there are historical versions of this registry
> > available. If reclamation of large blocks such as this becomes
> > commonplace, will many of the legacy allocations simply become
> > footnotes? (In the registry document, as well as in history?)
>
> This has already happened in many cases; address blocks previously
> held by US DoD, BBN, Stanford were returned, held for a period,
> and then reissued.
Indeed yes. And these returned blocks aren't noted in the IANA registry
(for good reason I guess; the registry is meant to be current.) Is this
historical information noted anywhere?
-S.
