Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations

> On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Bill Manning wrote:

> You don't neccessarily need addresses returned to solve routing table 
> crunch. If contact with the address owner really is impossible, then they 
> are not using the addresses on the global Internet and therefore their 
> addresses can be aggregated with other live addresses.

I should think the case where someone is NOT using addresses but DOES 
announce them is quite rare...