* Iljitsch van Beijnum > By the way, IANA only deals in /8s. However, a lot of people got > legacy /16s or other non-/8 sizes, so some /8s that are marked > "legacy" actually contain a lot of unused space. Each of those /8 is > "administered" by a RIR, but it's unclear (to me at least) whether > that means that RIR gets to give out that space in its region or not.
The unused space in the ERX blocks were divided evenly between the RIRs a couple of years ago, see: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/wilson-to-conrad-28jan08-en.pdf http://bgp.potaroo.net/stats/nro/various.html I believe «administered by» simply means that the RIR is the one providing reverse DNS services for the block in question. Regards, -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com Tel: +47 21 54 41 27
