[147620] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: De-bogon not possible via arin policy.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Thu Dec 15 15:42:27 2011
To: "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia@gmail.com>, "Matthew Kaufman" <matthew@matthew.at>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:41:21 -0500
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EEA1570.6080601@matthew.at>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:42:40 -0500, Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
wrote:
> Now that 5.0.0.0/8 is being allocated, you need to move out of it (so
> that your users can reach the real 5.0.0.0/8 sites).
>
> Why wouldn't this be sufficient justification for a new /8 from ARIN?
Because it's not ARIN's job to clean up someone else's stupid. You chose
to use address space that would eventually be allocated, thus creating a
(future) mess for yourself; now you're left to live with it. (For the
record, there's no easy way out of that mess now.)
