On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:34 AM, John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 14, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: >> >> thanks! history is important here. >
reading this this morning, my comment sounds more flippant than I meant. I really did mean that getting the details right was important. > Policy proposals for "specialized technical allocations" > are best considered by the IETF. ARIN was aware of the > RFC 2860 (the MOU between ICANN and the IAB) which said > as much, and once we confirmed this understanding with > the IAB, ARIN directed the community to make use of the > IETF process to develop an appropriate RFC for an IANA > assignment. > > ARIN was notified by the IANA that the RFC was approved > and was asked if we could assign sufficient resources to > them for this purpose. The ARIN Board approved assigning > back to the IANA a /10 block out of one of the /8's we > received from them in 2010. The IANA registry has been > now updated accordingly: > http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml#note5 > > Thanks! (and hope this clarifies things) does, thanks! > > John Curran > President and CEO > ARIN > > > > > > >
