[8130] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Mar 11 00:39:19 1997
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 07:36:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199703110044.QAA22923@wisdom.home.vix.com>
On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> > Yes, I know many (David and Geoff:-)) are probably calling me Pollyanna
> > right about now and it is true that most companies won't return it
> > if they think they can sell it. But I think having a procedure in
> > place to at least begin reclaiming addresses from those organizations
> > that are no longer in business can only help matters.
>
> I personally oversaw the return of four /16's recently, so I, at least,
> do not consider this to be Pollyannaism.
>
When I returned an ASN 2 months ago to RIPE, I asked what the procedure
was to deallocate an AS object and return it to the pool of available
numbers. I was told there was no procedure since I was the first. :-)
Hank Nussbacher
