Re: Old blocks that not abide to current rules should not be routed
"Might get a call from the US military/defense establishment - they seem to be sitting on rather a lot of /8 address ranges..."
They're not using most of them (or weren't in the 1990s) and were considering handing them back at one point (one question that got asked was "To whom though?". I suspect they'd prefer to sit on them now as a way of pushing the world to IPv6