[44030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 214/8 and 215/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu Nov 1 10:29:51 2001
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:29:15 -0500
From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
To: Nigel Titley <nigel@titley.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>,
nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:13:08PM +0000, Nigel Titley wrote:
> bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> >
> > > 214/8 and 215/8 seem to have been allocated to the U.S. DoD in ca. 1998.
> > > There does seem to be a few sizeable announcements (which overlap a few
> > > not-so-sizable ones), but I have to wonder if anyone can explain the
> > > grounds on which they were allocated these two /8s, and which body
> > > did the allocation. Anyone?
> > >
> > > Sean.
> >
> > I could. Why does it matter?
>
> Oh, openness, transparency, that sort of thing. Nothing really
> important.
The full RFC2050 justification for a /7's worth of space would
be a mighty and wondrous thing to behold.
Joe
