[156547] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Wed Sep 19 17:43:44 2012
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:42:59 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
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On 19/09/2012 22:02, David Conrad wrote:
> Assuming for the sake of argument that the 51/8 is actually unused
> (which it apparently isn't), the UK gov't would be under no contractual
> obligation to return the address space to IANA (which is (arguably) the
> allocating registry, not RIPE) -- I believe that "class A" was allocated
> prior to the existence of the RIRs and registration service agreements.
the ripe ncc has short-circuited this particular argument by committing to
hand back to IANA any legacy address space which is handed back to it.
I.e. makes no difference - it ends up at IANA anyway.
Nick
