On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 17 feb 2011, at 18:57, John Curran wrote:
Actually, as I have noted before, the US DoD has contractually agreed to return to ARIN unneeded IPv4 address space if/when such becomes available, so that it may be used by the Internet community.
How can they "return" stuff to ARIN that they got from IANA in the first place?
ARIN seems to be getting the very long end of the legacy stick.
Agreed. But last time I checked, the United States is in the ARIN region. And ARIN did not exist when the US DoD got its space. (In fact, I do believe the reason "IP space" exists is because the DoD paid someone to come up with the idea? :) If the US DoD wants more space, it has to ask ARIN, right? Are you suggesting it should deal with a different organization depending on which direction the IP addresses flow? Supposed it was space ARIN assigned the DoD? -- TTFN, patrick