[121577] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Vegoda)
Fri Jan 22 11:57:39 2010
From: Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@icann.org>
To: Brian Dickson <Brian.Dickson@concertia.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:56:56 -0800
In-Reply-To: <21D41A38B8859B4A97B1AE2313922B8A821FC1C2F8@concertiabl02.concertia.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 22 Jan 2010, at 8:32, Brian Dickson wrote:
[...]
> The granularity of allocations is arbitrary, and when scraping the bottom=
of the barrel,
> where there are known problems, it may time to get more granular.
>=20
> There's really no difference in managing a handful of /N's rather than /8=
's, if N is not
> that much bigger than 8.
You need to change the global policy to do that. ICANN staff cannot allocat=
e anything more specific than a /8 right now because the policy requires IP=
v4 allocations to the RIRs be in /8 units.
http://www.icann.org/en/general/allocation-IPv4-rirs.html
Regards,
Leo=
