Not to mention Ford Motor Company has 19.0.0.0/8, and there are no announcements for it whatsoever.
There are other /8s like it...lots of them early allocations. Why ARIN doesn't revoke them is frankly baffling to me. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > > When IPv4 exhaustion pain reaches a sufficiently high level of pain; > > there is a significant chance people who will be convinced that any > > use of IPv4 which does not involve announcing and routing the address > > space on the internet is a "Non-Use" of IPv4 addresses, > > > > and that that particular point of view will prevail over the concept > > and convenience of being allowed to maintain unique registration for > > non-connected usage. > > > > And perception that those addresses are up for grabs, either for using > > on RFC1918 networks for NAT, or for insisting that internet registry > > allocations be recalled and those resources put towards use by > > connected networks...... > > > > If you do have such an unconnected network, it may be prudent to have > > a connected network as well, and announce all your space anyways (just > > not route the addresses) > > this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world. luckily, the > disease does not propagate sufficiently to cross oceans. > > randy > >