Owen,
On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:43 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
For example, the much-touted allocation to US DoD in the ARIN region is often characterized as a much larger allocation than it actually was because what was allocated to DoD was several much smaller blocks with a lot of holes in between the address blocks. Admittedly, those holes are being treated as a reservation which led to ARIN requesting additional space from IANA, but, the holes are not allocated to DoD and I expect in the future would start being issued to other organizations.
:-)
I would think that anyone looking at the DoD allocations objectively would think that either ARIN was incompetent and allocated multiple discontiguous prefixes to the same organization or the prefixes allocated were from a much larger block.
I, for one, don't think ARIN is incompetent.
Regards,
-drc