[8131] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Tue Mar 11 01:24:17 1997
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU (Bill Manning)
To: hank@ibm.net.il (Hank Nussbacher)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:19:52 -0800 (PST)
Cc: paul@vix.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.95-heb-2.07.970311073419.71061F-100000@rex.ibm.net.il> from "Hank Nussbacher" at Mar 11, 97 07:36:48 am
> > 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
Not quite the same thing and not the same registries Hank. Check the PIER
wg archives. There is a method to return IPv4 prefixes. ASN return is a bit
different but does work with InterNIC.
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--bill
