<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Andrew Alston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aa@tenet.ac.za">aa@tenet.ac.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I would be opposed to any policy that placed any restrictions on true legacy space (that space that was assigned prior to the existence of RIR’s).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I am not at all convinced that such a policy could actually be legally enforced anyway, since the space was allocated outside of the auspicious of the RIR structures</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wasa it? Aren't the RIRs "agents" or "designees" of IANA who gavve the allocated originally? </div><div><br></div><div>Weren't legacy recipients supposed to return the space if they no longer had a need for it? I think your org set a precedent on this by returning most of your legacy space to the RIR, no?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>