[137710] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Feb 18 09:54:35 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <3155646E-CC94-4242-83C6-B16C378D42BA@muada.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:51:10 -0800
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:54 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.
The same way people have returned to ARIN resources obtained from:
SRI Internic
Network Solutions Internic
ARIN is the successor registry and maintains the whois and in-addr data
for the blocks. An attempt to return them to IANA directly would =
probably be
met with a "go return these to ARIN" response. I don't know that for =
sure,
but, that is what I would expect.
As to ARIN getting the long end of the legacy stick, well, the ARIN =
region
got the long end of the costs of developing and making the early =
deployments
of the Internet, so, many of the legacy allocations and assignments are
within the ARIN region. This is simple historical fact. I'm not sure why =
anyone
feels we should attempt to revise history.
Owen
