On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 2/10/2011 8:15 PM, John Curran wrote: >> I'm not certain that you could rely on any organizations statements made >> today >> to provide any assurance that circumstances would not change in the future >> and >> result in the address space being returned to ARIN or transferred per current >> policy. > > An official statement from the DoD? I'm sure we could hold them to it as a > community. Is it too much for us to ask the US government to give us > assurance that we can safely utilize huge chunks of address space assigned to > them for purposes such as LSN without fear? :)
In organizations of all sizes, positions and policies change, with revised statements as a result. One thing that does not change, however, is contractual commitments, and in this one case I can state that there is a commitment to return IPv4 address blocks to ARIN for reuse by the community if they no longer needed. If you'd like to reserve a large block for purposes of LSN without any concern of future address conflict, it would be best to actually reserve it via community-developed policy. FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN
