> I personally oversaw the return of four /16's recently, so I, at least,
> do not consider this to be Pollyannaism.
>When I returned an ASN 2 months ago to RIPE, I asked what the procedure
was to deallocate an AS object and return it to the pool of available
numbers. I was told there was no procedure since I was the first.Hank Nussbacher
Not quite the same thing and not the same registries Hank. Check the PIER
wg archives. There is a method to return IPv4 prefixes. ASN return is a bit
different but does work with InterNIC.