[37576] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: heads up on 80/8 [actually operational, so don't read this!!!]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Aldridge)
Wed May 16 12:12:39 2001
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
of "Wed, 16 May 2001 07:48:38 MST." <20010516144838.7A1E9C7919@cesium.clock.org>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:37:08 +0000
From: James Aldridge <jhma@mcvax.org>
Message-Id: <E1503MK-000Czy-00@mcvax.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean M. Doran wrote:
> 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,
RIPE have also been allocated 81/8 so it won't be *too* long before the same
applies in that block too. Why not get the filtering change for the whole /7
out of the way now...
> On behalf of random Europeans,
James
(A random European, and co-chair of the RIPE Local IR Working Group)
