ARIN recognizes Interop for return of more than 99% of 45/8 address block

[sds at dcs.gla.ac.uk (Stephen D. Strowes)]

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 17:40 +0100, John Curran wrote:
> > Also makes me wonder if there are historical versions of this registry
> > available. If reclamation of large blocks such as this becomes
> > commonplace, will many of the legacy allocations simply become
> > footnotes? (In the registry document, as well as in history?)
> 
> This has already happened in many cases; address blocks previously
> held by US DoD, BBN, Stanford were returned, held for a period,
> and then reissued.

Indeed yes. And these returned blocks aren't noted in the IANA registry
(for good reason I guess; the registry is meant to be current.) Is this
historical information noted anywhere?


-S.