[137327] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Fri Feb 11 00:17:02 2011
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:19:49 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4D549F84.4030200@brightok.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Thu Feb 10 20:35:01 2011
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:31:32 -0600
> From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
> To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
> Subject: Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers
> Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
>
> On 2/10/2011 8:15 PM, John Curran wrote:
> > I'm not certain that you could rely on any organizations statements
> > made today to provide any assurance that circumstances would not change
> > in the future and result in the address space being returned to ARIN or
> > transferred per current policy.
>
> An official statement from the DoD? I'm sure we could hold them to it as
> a community. Is it too much for us to ask the US government to give us
> assurance that we can safely utilize huge chunks of address space
> assigned to them for purposes such as LSN without fear? :)
Even the DoD cannot say "for sure" that they would never route some of that
space 'in time of need' over the public internet.
