> From [email protected] Thu Feb 10 20:35:01 > 2011 > Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:31:32 -0600 > From: Jack Bates <[email protected]> > To: John Curran <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers > Cc: NANOG <[email protected]> > > On 2/10/2011 8:15 PM, John Curran wrote: > > I'm not certain that you could rely on any organizations statements > > made today to provide any assurance that circumstances would not change > > in the future and result in the address space being returned to ARIN or > > transferred per current policy. > > An official statement from the DoD? I'm sure we could hold them to it as > a community. Is it too much for us to ask the US government to give us > assurance that we can safely utilize huge chunks of address space > assigned to them for purposes such as LSN without fear? :)
Even the DoD cannot say "for sure" that they would never route some of that space 'in time of need' over the public internet.

