SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

Wed Sep 7 12:58:14 UTC 2005

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Edward Lewis wrote:

>> Their rwhois seems to be terminally down. Can we reclaim 4/8 from them now?
>
> Who is "we?"
>
> IANA says it belongs to BBN (ARIN not mentioned):
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
>
>   004/8   Dec 92   Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.

4/8 is most definitely a legacy allocation, which I don't believe ARIN has 
any power to reclaim unless Level3 surrenders it voluntarily (not likely).

jms