[137693] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Feb 18 06:00:19 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <3155646E-CC94-4242-83C6-B16C378D42BA@muada.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:00:14 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 17 feb 2011, at 18:57, John Curran wrote:
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> How can they "return" stuff to ARIN that they got from IANA in the =
first place?
>=20
> ARIN seems to be getting the very long end of the legacy stick.
Agreed.
But last time I checked, the United States is in the ARIN region. And =
ARIN did not exist when the US DoD got its space. (In fact, I do =
believe the reason "IP space" exists is because the DoD paid someone to =
come up with the idea? :)
If the US DoD wants more space, it has to ask ARIN, right? Are you =
suggesting it should deal with a different organization depending on =
which direction the IP addresses flow?
Supposed it was space ARIN assigned the DoD?
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
