214/8 and 215/8

Thu Nov 1 01:44:50 UTC 2001

I seem to remember that they were exchanged for 49/8 and 50/8. Seems a bit 
odd that this was done, and I'd love to know what the technical or 
operational or political advantage was. Maybe the IANA folks can shed more 
light?

 From http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space:

049/8           Joint Technical Command                 May 94
                 Returned to IANA                        Mar 98
050/8           Joint Technical Command                 May 94
                 Returned to IANA                        Mar 98
...
214/8           US-DOD                                  Mar 98
215/8           US-DOD                                  Mar 98

philip
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At 14:15 31/10/2001 -0800, Sean M. Doran wrote:

>Hi -
>
>   214/8 and 215/8 seem to have been allocated to the U.S. DoD in ca. 1998.
>There does seem to be a few sizeable announcements (which overlap a few
>not-so-sizable ones), but I have to wonder if anyone can explain the
>grounds on which they were allocated these two /8s, and which body
>did the allocation.   Anyone?
>
>         Sean.