[17286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /24 in the RIPE netblocks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu May 28 17:15:02 1998
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 16:51:21 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980528214832.9598J-100000@uplift.sparta.lu.se>; from Mikael Abrahamsson on Thu, May 28, 1998 at 09:52:20PM +0200
That netblock space is in what is termed the swamp, or
toxic waste dump.
Nobody that i'm aware of filters that other than at /24
- jared
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 09:52:20PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> Ripe delegates the 193/8, 194/8 and 195/8 blocks to european customers and
> some of these are /24 called "provider independant" nets and therefore
> arent connected to an ISP but rather directly to the customer and thus by
> definitition cannot be aggregated. The original idea was to have these so
> people wouldnt have to renumber when changing ISPs. I guess a lot of you
> consider this "a bad thing" (tm) but it's the way it is...
>
> My question is how many in the US filter out these /24 announcements from
> these blocks? And if you filter, would you consider making an exception
> for /24 in 193,194,195/8?
