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Re: ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block


From: "Stephen D. Strowes" <sds () dcs gla ac uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:52:00 +0100

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 17:40 +0100, John Curran wrote:
Also makes me wonder if there are historical versions of this registry
available. If reclamation of large blocks such as this becomes
commonplace, will many of the legacy allocations simply become
footnotes? (In the registry document, as well as in history?)

This has already happened in many cases; address blocks previously
held by US DoD, BBN, Stanford were returned, held for a period,
and then reissued.

Indeed yes. And these returned blocks aren't noted in the IANA registry
(for good reason I guess; the registry is meant to be current.) Is this
historical information noted anywhere?


-S.




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