[156515] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Wed Sep 19 03:05:22 2012
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:04:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120919065959.AFD332568362@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 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!
> !announced whole world != !announced.
>
> There is a simple rule.
i guess my sarcasm was missed.
> DO NOT USE ADDRESSES THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ALLOCATED.
>
> Anything else has the potential to cause operational problems.
Tell that to the providers who keep routing hijacked blocks for spammers :)
-Dan
