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Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Jan 22 14:53:17 2010

From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:52:44 -0500
To: Brian Dickson <Brian.Dickson@concertia.com>
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On 2010-01-22, at 14:49, Brian Dickson wrote:

> I think it would certainly be useful, both diagnostically and =
operationally,
> for IANA and the RIR's to *actually announce* the unused space, and =
run either or
> both of tar-pits and honey-pots on those, for just such a reason - to =
gauge problems
> that might exist on "unused" space, *before* the space is assigned.

I believe the RIRs have already been doing this with each /8 they've =
received from the IANA for quite some time.


Joe



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