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Either IANA's records are out of date or the space was granted prior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.
