Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

[Hyunseog Ryu <r.hyunseog () ieee org>]

BBN changed it's name to Genuity, and Level3 acquired Genuity.
4.0.0.0/8 was assigned to BBN prior to ARIN born.
So there is not much of control from ARIN.
But L3 may need to follow IP address transfer policy since the ownership 
of IP address was changed.
I guess reclaiming the ip address may be hot topic, and it may requires 
ARIN to have more staffs to back up to avoid potential chaos from 
network operation and lawsuits.  ^.^

Hyun

Edward Lewis wrote:

> > > NetRange:   4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255
> > > ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.level3.net:4321
> > >
> > > % telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321
> > > Trying 209.244.1.179...
> > > telnet: connect to address 209.244.1.179: Operation timed out
> > >
> > > Doesn't seem to have made much difference yet...
> >
> >
> > Their rwhois seems to be terminally down. Can we reclaim 4/8 from 
> > them now?
>
>
> Who is "we?"
>
> IANA says it belongs to BBN (ARIN not mentioned):
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
>
>    004/8   Dec 92   Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
>
> (as opposed to)
>
>    073/8   Mar 05   ARIN                                (whois.arin.net)
>    074/8   Jun 05   ARIN                                (whois.arin.net)
>    075/8   Jun 05   ARIN                                (whois.arin.net)
>    076/8   Jun 05   ARIN                                (whois.arin.net)
>
> Either IANA's records are out of date or the space was granted prior 
> to ARIN's start (in 97 or so).  ARIN (via policies) has little say 
> over this space.