[25748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN to Allocate from 64.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Campbell)
Wed Nov 10 16:33:19 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 07:02:27 +1000 (EST)
From: Bruce Campbell <bc@vicious.dropbear.id.au>
To: Steve Rubin <ser@tch.org>
Cc: Richard Steenbergen <ras@above.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Steve Rubin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:50:57AM -0500, Richard Steenbergen wrote:
> >
> > I might almost be happy, except this breaks the oh-so-nice filter of
> > 64.0.0.0/2 at borders (effectively reduces random src spoofed attacks
> > by 25%, and covers 127.0.0.0/8 as well). Go ARIN. </sarcasm>
Urm, last time I checked, ARIN was not in the position to arbitarily
decide which /8 (of the reserved /8s) it would start assigning from next.
That decision is in the hands of IANA ne ICANN.
> The #'s have to come from somewhere, and 64/8 is just as good as any
> other chunk of address space. Maybe a charge of $1/yr should be imposed for
ISPs within the APNIC and RIPE ranges of 61/8 and 62/8 respectively have
already gone through trying to get filters redone by US ISPs over the past
few years.
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Bruce.
