[121535] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Thu Jan 21 20:50:32 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1001212017550.22812@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:49:58 -0800
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 21, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> In the event that 1.0.0.0/8 is assigned by IANA, anoNet could
> move to the next unassigned /8, though such an event is unlikely, as
> 1.0.0.0/8 has been reserved since September 1981.
Sounds like a non-winning strategy to me. It's just a (random) matter =
of time until they get to do the same thing again, see:
http://blog.icann.org/2009/09/selecting-which-8-to-allocate-to-an-rir/
> I thought there was some other group that had been squatting in 1/8, =
something about radio and peer to peer...but not AnoNet (at least that =
name was totally unfamiliar)...but this was all I could find with a =
quick google.
There are other folks who are playing Russian Roulette, e.g. =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamachi. =20
Lots of "fun" in store for us in the future. Might think about moving =
to IPv6... :-)
Regards,
-drc
