So I got curious and checked the 'current' list. Looks to me like the question revolving around MIT is small potatoes compared with some other organizations ... HP now owns two /8 blocks ... their own and DECs. A bunch of IANA reserved ... which seem likely to be available. I'd bet more than 3/4ths of the space allocated to specific organizations as /8s could be recovered. If that needs to happen, the sooner the current owners of those blocks start planning, the easier it will be. Those who speculated that MIT had a fundraising opportunity neglected to comment on the competition. Dave Morris On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 michael.dillon@xxxxxx wrote: >... > So to answer your question about what is stopping the RIRs from > reclaiming the very earliest /8 allocations, it isn't yet worth the > bother. Some of them have been returned voluntarily as you can see if > you compare http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space with RFC > 739. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf