Re: [arin-ppml] On the history of early number registrations, ARIN, and ARIN's role in the administration of the Internet number registry

2022-04-15 Thread John Curran
On 14 Apr 2022, at 11:07 PM, Jo Rhett mailto:g...@jorhett.com>> wrote: As a matter of point, you make this same argument yourself: 1. ARIN was formed for the purpose of administration of the registry in North America and took over that responsibility at the time of our formation – includi

Re: [arin-ppml] On the history of early number registrations, ARIN, and ARIN's role in the administration of the Internet number registry

2022-04-14 Thread hostmas...@uneedus.com
So a bit more than 35% of the space in the registry is without any RSA/LRSA? I am guessing that most of that was in the form of the original class "A" networks of various older federal agencies and otherwise who do not really have an ARIN budget, but that is just a wild guess. Is there any b

Re: [arin-ppml] On the history of early number registrations, ARIN, and ARIN's role in the administration of the Internet number registry

2022-04-14 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 14, 2022, at 7:50 AM, John Curran mailto:jcur...@arin.net>> wrote: > The bad news is that such communications were written to be expeditious in > the administration of the registry, as opposed to being written with legal > clarity. As a simple example of that fact, consider that the term

Re: [arin-ppml] On the history of early number registrations, ARIN, and ARIN's role in the administration of the Internet number registry

2022-04-14 Thread John Curran
> On 14 Apr 2022, at 3:25 PM, hostmas...@uneedus.com wrote: > > Is there any numbers of exactly: > How much space is legacy without an RSA/LRSA and As of 1 Jan 2022 - Total IPv4 Address space in the registry: 1,672,630,848 Total IPv4 Address space covered by RSA:

Re: [arin-ppml] On the history of early number registrations, ARIN, and ARIN's role in the administration of the Internet number registry

2022-04-14 Thread hostmaster
Is there any numbers of exactly: How much space is legacy without an RSA/LRSA and How much space of that number has had no contact/invalid contact? Albert Erdmann Network Administrator Paradise On Line Inc. On Thu, 14 Apr 2022, John Curran wrote: On 14 Apr 2022, at 12:43 PM, Fernando Fr

Re: [arin-ppml] On the history of early number registrations, ARIN, and ARIN's role in the administration of the Internet number registry

2022-04-14 Thread John Curran
On 14 Apr 2022, at 12:43 PM, Fernando Frediani mailto:fhfredi...@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks for the history and better clarification. However it is not still clear to me if ARIN can, at some point and under which conditions recover these legacy blocks which look abandoned and have zero signal o

Re: [arin-ppml] On the history of early number registrations, ARIN, and ARIN's role in the administration of the Internet number registry

2022-04-14 Thread Fernando Frediani
Hi Thanks for the history and better clarification. However it is not still clear to me if ARIN can, at some point and under which conditions recover these legacy blocks which look abandoned and have zero signal of being used or have some organization looking after it, and send to be re-assig

[arin-ppml] On the history of early number registrations, ARIN, and ARIN's role in the administration of the Internet number registry

2022-04-14 Thread John Curran
Folks - I have some good news and some bad news… The good news is that the history of the Internet number registry system is actually fairly well-known – for instance, we know the parties that were involved and have many examples of the emails that were sent when number resources were issued –