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Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

  • From: Justin M. Streiner
  • Date: Wed Sep 07 08:59:26 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