[137697] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tore Anderson)
Fri Feb 18 06:35:53 2011
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:36:19 +0100
From: Tore Anderson <tore.anderson@redpill-linpro.com>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B39A00D-EF5A-41D3-980F-85FDBB32B080@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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* Iljitsch van Beijnum
> By the way, IANA only deals in /8s. However, a lot of people got
> legacy /16s or other non-/8 sizes, so some /8s that are marked
> "legacy" actually contain a lot of unused space. Each of those /8 is
> "administered" by a RIR, but it's unclear (to me at least) whether
> that means that RIR gets to give out that space in its region or not.
The unused space in the ERX blocks were divided evenly between the RIRs
a couple of years ago, see:
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/wilson-to-conrad-28jan08-en.pdf
http://bgp.potaroo.net/stats/nro/various.html
I believe Ťadministered byť simply means that the RIR is the one
providing reverse DNS services for the block in question.
Regards,
--
Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com
Tel: +47 21 54 41 27
