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Re: IPv6 allocatin (was Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Fri Sep 1 08:20:30 2000

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Patrick Greenwell wrote:

> Gosh, doesn't that beg the question: why don't we require the return of
> all that wasted space that was delegated to anyone and everyone so long
> ago?

Ah, but if you return your legacy blocks, you're no longer a member of
ARIN. Apparently those holding blocks from the old days are
automatically made members, so there's a financial incentive from ARIN
itself to avoid return of any historic delegation.

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