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.