On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Stephen D. Strowes wrote: > Interested to know how this will show in the IANA v4 address space > registry. Will 045/8 soon appear as belonging to ARIN, since it is now > not Interop's?
Correct. Also note that the concept of a single RIR managing each /8 only applies under certain circumstances; there are many cases where multiple RIR's manage resources under a given block and work together to make sure that things like in-addr (and RPKI) function. This could easily be the case with this particular address block at some future time, depending on the state of global return policy. > 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. /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN
