Why does MIT have a /8 IPv4 block?

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00:00 Question
00:32 Accepted answer (Score 105)
02:12 Answer 2 (Score 131)
05:10 Answer 3 (Score 28)
06:25 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/1152954/...

Accepted answer links:
[this one]: https://www.quora.com/How-did-MIT-end-up...
[this one]: https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-MIT-giv...
[MIT]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachuse...
[classless inter-domain routing]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_...
[according to the details gleaned in RFC 1166]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1166#p...
[IANA]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_A...
[RIR]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_I...
[MIT was recognized as controlling the whole ]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_as...
[classful network architecture]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classful_n...
[Greg Skinner on Quora]: https://www.quora.com/How-did-MIT-end-up...
[RFC 796 - Address mappings]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc796
[MIT-LCS (Laboratory for Computer Science)]: https://libraries.mit.edu/mithistory/res.../
[RFC 739]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc739

Answer 2 links:
[IEN 115]: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien115.txt

Answer 3 links:
[“List of assigned /8 IPv4 address blocks”]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_as...

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