SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World
Hyunseog Ryu
r.hyunseog at ieee.org
Wed Sep 7 13:23:42 UTC 2005
BBN changed it's name to Genuity, and Level3 acquired Genuity.
4.0.0.0/8 was assigned to BBN prior to ARIN born.
So there is not much of control from ARIN.
But L3 may need to follow IP address transfer policy since the ownership
of IP address was changed.
I guess reclaiming the ip address may be hot topic, and it may requires
ARIN to have more staffs to back up to avoid potential chaos from
network operation and lawsuits. ^.^
Hyun
Edward Lewis wrote:
>
>>> NetRange: 4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255
>>> ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.level3.net:4321
>>>
>>> % telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321
>>> Trying 209.244.1.179...
>>> telnet: connect to address 209.244.1.179: Operation timed out
>>>
>>> Doesn't seem to have made much difference yet...
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> (as opposed to)
>
> 073/8 Mar 05 ARIN (whois.arin.net)
> 074/8 Jun 05 ARIN (whois.arin.net)
> 075/8 Jun 05 ARIN (whois.arin.net)
> 076/8 Jun 05 ARIN (whois.arin.net)
>
> Either IANA's records are out of date or the space was granted prior
> to ARIN's start (in 97 or so). ARIN (via policies) has little say
> over this space.
>
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