[37601] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN, and reservations?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Thu May 17 13:50:12 2001
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 13:54:41 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Chris Kilbourn <kilbo-list@forest.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Who 'allowed' you to announce the /19 when you had a /20 of it?
ARIN, at least to us, has been clear on not announcing what isn't
assigned.
> In the spirit of full disclosure, we were being boneheads and using
> addresses in the reserved space under the mistaken assumption that
> since we were being allowed to advertise the whole /19, and had intent
> to use it, and were going to ask for the other side, it was OK to use
> that space. Not so.
>
> It would have been nice if ARIN had dropped an automated note to the
> effect of, "Hey, you've got x months to apply for this space before we
> re-assign it."
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Kilbourn
> Chief Technical Officer
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