Iwu,
Have you also come across the following address waist? I haven't seen you guys making any noise about them!
014/8 Jun 91 IANA - Public Data Network ---- (a whole /8 for an organisation of less than 20 people?)
Actually, the PDN /8 was allocated for integrating X.25 networks into the Internet. Individual /32s were assigned to X.25 endpoints run by different companies, so representing 14/8 as "a whole /8 for an organization of less than 20 people" is not accurate. And besides, Leo Vegoda has been very active in recovering the /32s so we can return 14/8 to the free pool. There used to be over 200 assignments in that /8. There are lots of better examples in the "legacy /8" space, however I'm not sure "historical reasons" is a good rationale for current policy in an entirely different address space.
inet6num: 2001:07F8::/29 inet6num: 2001:07FD::/32 netname: K-rootserver-net-20030829 descr: This assignment given to k-root.server.net descr: maintained by the RIPE NCC
--- (just for the Kroot server Infratsructure ????? is this an LIR)
Because root name server addresses must be encoded into configurations of all caching servers on the Internet, I believe that they are very special and should be treated specially. Rgds, -drc