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Posted: Wednesday, 20 October 2010
ARIN today recognizes Interop, an organization with a long-standing presence in the Internet industry, for returning its unneeded Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address space.
Interop was originally allocated a /8 before ARIN's existence and the availability of smaller-sized address blocks. The organization recently realized it was only using a small portion of its address block and that returning the remainder to ARIN would be for the greater good of the Internet community.
ARIN will accept the returned space and not reissue it for a short period, per existing operational procedure. After the hold period, ARIN will follow global policy at that time and return it to the global free pool or distribute the space to those organizations in the ARIN region with documented need, as appropriate.
With less than 5% of the IPv4 address space left in the global free pool, ARIN warns that Interop's return will not significantly extend the life of IPv4. ARIN continues to emphasize the need for all Internet stakeholders to adopt the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6.
Regards,
Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers
***** Moderator's Note *****I'm still astonished that ARIN hasn't re-assigned 44/8, which is, in reality, a detached network. It's for Amateur Radio Packet, and since hams use radios instead of fiber or coax, the 44.0.0.0 addresses never touch the Internet.
The closest we hams get to using ampr.org on the Internet is to occasionally put an MX record into the ampr.org DNS, so that we can use email addresses like " snipped-for-privacy@kz5rph.ampr.org".
Bill Horne Moderator