[121538] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Harris)
Thu Jan 21 20:57:12 2010
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:52:45 +0000
From: Neil Harris <neil@tonal.clara.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1001212017550.22812@soloth.lewis.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 22/01/10 01:22, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, George Bonser wrote:
>
>> Some of that water is dirtier than the rest. I wouldn't want to be the
>> person who gets 1.2.3.0/24
>
> The whole /8 should be fun.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnoNet
>
> To avoid addressing conflict with the internet itself, the range
> 1.0.0.0/8 is used. This is to avoid conflicting with internal networks
> such as 10/8, 172.16/12 and 192.168/16, as well as assigned Internet
> ranges. 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.
>
> 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.
This?
http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2003-May/001628.html
-- Neil
