17 Feb
2011
17 Feb
'11
12:46 p.m.
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> writes:
The DoD does not seem particularly anxious to announce or explain their usage of those blocks to the rest of the community.
They have much larger quantities of significantly more sophisticated armaments than ARIN.
I agree it would be nice if they would voluntarily return whatever is appropriate to the community, but,
You mean like they already did with 49/8, 50/8 (both formerly Joint Technical Command), 10/8 (formerly ARPAnet), and 7/8 (DNIC)? As the biggest returner of IPv4 space by a fair margin, notwithstanding their current holdings I think the DoD is quite justified in saying "I gave at the office" and hanging up. -r