In message <[email protected]>, at
10:46:23 on Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Jim Reid <[email protected]> writes
On 22 Sep 2014, at 10:34, Roland Perry <[email protected]> wrote:
If so, then the IANA table should be clearly annotated so that people
know that the "Designation" for these non-RIR legacy entries is the
name of the organisation that the allocation was *originally* made to.
That just provides other sticks: "what happened to 16/8 after DEC
died?",
That's Richard Hill's question, and the answer has to lie somewhere
within the successor companies to whom various aspects of the business
were transferred/sold.
If it was broken up, then perhaps the listing should be removed from
IANA's /8 table, and re-documented in smaller fragments to relevant
RIRs. If it's still under one entity's overall control, why can't IANA
tell us [ARIN knows, it's claimed].
"why is Stanford University listed as holding 28/8 when it no longer
uses that space?", "when will MIT hand back 18/8?" etc, etc.
As far as I know both of those still exist, and maybe the listed
contacts are even traceable (I haven't tried, but it seems more likely
than the other examples here).
Questions like "why does MIT have more address space than the whole of
China" would be even harder to debunk if MIT had in fact ceased to
exist, and this wasn't recorded somewhere easy-to-find at IANA.
--
Roland Perry
