[137622] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Feb 17 13:03:33 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:57:32 +0000
In-Reply-To: <868vxepnad.fsf@seastrom.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> writes:
>> ...
>> I agree it would be nice if they would voluntarily return whatever
>> is appropriate to the community, but,
>=20
> You mean like they already did with 49/8, 50/8 (both formerly Joint
> Technical Command), 10/8 (formerly ARPAnet), and 7/8 (DNIC)?
>=20
> 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.
Actually, as I have noted before, the US DoD has contractually=20
agreed to return to ARIN unneeded IPv4 address space if/when
such becomes available, so that it may be used by the Internet
community.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
