[37573] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: heads up on 80/8 [actually operational, so don't read this!!!]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Griffin)
Wed May 16 11:39:37 2001
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In-Reply-To: <20010516144838.7A1E9C7919@cesium.clock.org> from "Sean M. Doran" at "May 16, 2001 07:48:38 am"
To: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:30:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In the referenced message, Sean M. Doran said:
>
> Hello, long time no see -
>
> RIPE is now allocating subnets of 80/8 to end users.
>
> In order to avoid the ugliness of various people announcing 80/8
> without guaranateeing transit to all the subnets, if you are filtering
> subnets of this /8, please relax your filters to allow /20s and shorter,
>
> On behalf of random Europeans,
>
> Sean. (yeah, ok, this is at least partially work-related-stuff...)
>
According to
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-39/presentations/rsreport/sld003.html
They are also allocating out of 81/8, so if you want to avoid making changes
to filters twice, may want to add that as well.
