So I got curious and checked the 'current' list. Looks to me like the
question revolving around MIT is small potatoes compared with some
other organizations ... HP now owns two /8 blocks ... their own and DECs.
A bunch of IANA reserved ... which seem likely to be available.
I'd bet more than 3/4ths of the space allocated to specific organizations
as /8s could be recovered. If that needs to happen, the sooner the current
owners of those blocks start planning, the easier it will be.
Those who speculated that MIT had a fundraising opportunity neglected
to comment on the competition.
Dave Morris
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 michael(_dot_)dillon(_at_)bt(_dot_)com wrote:
...
So to answer your question about what is stopping the RIRs from
reclaiming the very earliest /8 allocations, it isn't yet worth the
bother. Some of them have been returned voluntarily as you can see if
you compare http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space with RFC
739.
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