[1824] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Fri Feb 2 19:40:58 1996
To: curtis@ans.net
cc: bmanning@isi.edu (Bill Manning), nh@ireland.eu.net (Nick Hilliard),
jon@branch.com, jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu, G.Huston@aarnet.edu.au,
asp@uunet.uu.net, cidrd@iepg.org, iesg@isi.edu, local-ir@ripe.net,
nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Feb 1996 14:43:23 EST."
<199602021943.OAA18515@brookfield.ans.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 19:32:40 -0500
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
> > If an organization registered an address they are responsible for
> > keeping the contact name up to date. If they don't announce the
> > route, they have not provided a valid contact, and there is no way to
> > contact them, including publishing a list on major mailing lists, then
> > it should be safe to recover the address since every reasonable effort
> > was made to contact them. If a route is not announced, this is a NOOP
> > anyway.
>
> Curtis,
> You idiot - how could you say such a thing. What about the poor guy
> who is using the net behind a firewall. ;-)
> -- Curtis
Curtis
You ignorant bozo - I meant it has no effect on routing table size.
Any attempt to recover it is a NOOP until we actually need the 192/8
space which won't be for a very long time (after A space is
exhausted). ;-)
-- Curtis
ps - I trust its perfectly acceptable to email flaming insults when
replying to yourself.