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
