[137617] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Thu Feb 17 12:49:17 2011
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:46:02 -0500
In-Reply-To: <8B0FDF52-A36D-46E8-9408-3C1A4C5D30CD@delong.com> (Owen DeLong's
message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:20:30 -0800")
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> writes:
> The DoD does not seem particularly anxious to announce or explain
> their usage of those blocks to the rest of the community.
>
> They have much larger quantities of significantly more sophisticated
> armaments than ARIN.
>
> I agree it would be nice if they would voluntarily return whatever
> is appropriate to the community, but,
You mean like they already did with 49/8, 50/8 (both formerly Joint
Technical Command), 10/8 (formerly ARPAnet), and 7/8 (DNIC)?
As the biggest returner of IPv4 space by a fair margin,
notwithstanding their current holdings I think the DoD is quite
justified in saying "I gave at the office" and hanging up.
-r
