[156514] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Wed Sep 19 03:01:06 2012
To: goemon@anime.net
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:40:32 MST."
<Pine.LNX.4.64.1209182339200.5518@sasami.anime.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:59:58 +1000
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.1209182339200.5518@sasami.anime.net>, goemon@anime.ne
t writes:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> "this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world. luckily, the
> >> disease does not propagate sufficiently to cross oceans."
> >>
> >> I'd love to hear the reasoning for this. Why would it be bad policy
> >> to force companies to use the resources they are assigned or give them
> >> back to the general pool?
> > Many of them _ARE_ using them, just not using them directly on the public
> > internet. There is nothing wrong with that.
> >
> > As others have said... !announced != !used.
>
> Is they are not using them directly on the public internet, then there's
> no reason we can't use them.
>
> Problem solved!
>
> -Dan
!announced whole world != !announced.
There is a simple rule.
DO NOT USE ADDRESSES THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ALLOCATED.
Anything else has the potential to cause operational problems.
Mark
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