[155812] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 172.0.0.0/12 has been Allocated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Aug 23 12:00:53 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <5FE1FB6D43B8A647BBC821840C1AEA8B017CBE@ocsbs.ocosa.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:54:17 -0700
To: "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <otis@ocosa.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 23, 2012, at 08:26 , "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <otis@ocosa.com> =
wrote:
> IMO the justifcation is probably in other areas of their business like =
cloud services, data center, etc.=20
>=20
> Obvisouly, it was compelling enough to warrant ARIN's approval for =
allocation of the space in the last stretch of IPv4. All /16 and larger =
requests goes to IPv4 review team anyway.=20
Not quite...
https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_countdown.html
Currently we are in phase 1.
The team review you mention does not start until we reach Phase 2 (3 /8s =
remaining). In Phase 1, it only requires senior analyst and/or =
department director approval.
I'll leave speculation as to what AT&T will do with the addresses to =
others.
Owen
