ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Wed Oct 20 14:25:08 UTC 2010


>>> ARIN will follow global policy at that time and return it to the
>>> global free pool or distribute the space to those organizations in the
>>> ARIN region with documented need, as appropriate.
>> 
>> i know the us has the world series, but global > arin region
> 
> The problem is that we haven't been able to get a global policy
> for returned address space, i.e. IANA has no policy on how to 
> assign less than full /8's.  The first global policy 2009-3 did
> not reach consensus on the same text in all regions, and 2010-10
> is still under discussion.
> 
> So, there's no way to know if there's a global policy which would
> allow the space to be returned to the IANA, but I'm optimistic...

ahh.  my problem.  lack of coffee.  i missed the "OR."  sorry.

i would guess iana would take it.

randy




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