[140956] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rogers Canada using 7.0.0.0/8 for internal address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu May 26 01:43:30 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikA0_k_xufhgHtg1Woc=Sj0aBX5+A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 22:35:58 -0700
To: Christopher Pilkington <cjp@0x1.net>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 25, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Christopher Pilkington wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:24 PM, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
>> NOTE WELL - Just because -you- (for values of you) see no value in
>> space assigned, does NOT give you the right to hijack said space
>> for your own purposes. Nor does it look well for you to advocate
>> hijacking someone elses space....
>
> Indeed, arbitrary is arbitrary, be it ham radio operators or the DoD.
> I was trolling hams on the list there, my apologies. FWIW, my box
> 44.68.16.20 hasn't been up in well over a decade. Would have been
> nice if that packet radio masses kept up with (or ahead of) the
> technology of the times. Our network went to 9600 baud user ports,
> then vanished.
>
> -cjp (n2mcs)
Unfortunately, the FCC hasn't really allowed us to since it would be very
hard to produce useful bandwidth by today's standards within the bounds
of the spectrum we are allowed to use and the channel separations we
are allowed to use.
Owen
