[121560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: policies for 24.0.0.0/8 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Fri Jan 22 05:28:00 2010
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:27:03 -0500
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B5978E7.8030300@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:07:35AM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 22/01/2010 05:07, Jim Mercer wrote:
> > i'm just wandering what happened to 24.0.0.0/8 and what policies
> > govern who and what can use the address space there.
>
> Not quite sure why you'd want to use 24/8. It became a "normal" address
> block a very long time ago . RFC3330 sez:
>
> > 24.0.0.0/8 - This block was allocated in early 1996 for use in
...
> > Numbers (ARIN) in May 2001. Addresses within this block are assigned
> > in the normal manner and should be treated as such.
>
> So, it's just regular IP address space, available for assignment if you
> live in ARIN-land.
hrm, somehow i missed that.
> Incidentally, Pakistan is serviced by APNIC, not RIPE:
>
> http://www.apnic.net/about-APNIC/organization/apnics-region
wow, musta been sleeping that day.
any how, it is what it is.
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