11 Mar
1997
11 Mar
'97
12:36 a.m.
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