On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:54 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.
The same way people have returned to ARIN resources obtained from: SRI Internic Network Solutions Internic ARIN is the successor registry and maintains the whois and in-addr data for the blocks. An attempt to return them to IANA directly would probably be met with a "go return these to ARIN" response. I don't know that for sure, but, that is what I would expect. As to ARIN getting the long end of the legacy stick, well, the ARIN region got the long end of the costs of developing and making the early deployments of the Internet, so, many of the legacy allocations and assignments are within the ARIN region. This is simple historical fact. I'm not sure why anyone feels we should attempt to revise history. Owen