[84190] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Wed Sep 7 08:58:42 2005
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:58:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <a06200703bf444f1e7bf5@[169.223.32.82]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Edward Lewis wrote:
>> Their rwhois seems to be terminally down. Can we reclaim 4/8 from them now?
>
> Who is "we?"
>
> IANA says it belongs to BBN (ARIN not mentioned):
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
>
> 004/8 Dec 92 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
4/8 is most definitely a legacy allocation, which I don't believe ARIN has
any power to reclaim unless Level3 surrenders it voluntarily (not likely).
jms
