[121569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Fri Jan 22 09:07:55 2010
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On 22/01/2010 13:54, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> Also, 27/8 is clearly in the middle of a group of North American military
> assignments. So at the very least, these aren't very CIDR'ish.
Is that operationally relevant to the /8 assignment process?
> Why not 36 & 37?
Random selection to ensure that no RIR can accuse IANA of bias. See
David's previous post:
http://blog.icann.org/2009/09/selecting-which-8-to-allocate-to-an-rir/
Nick
