[44038] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 214/8 and 215/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M. Doran)
Thu Nov 1 11:32:24 2001
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nigel@titley.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, smd@clock.org
Message-Id: <20011101162933.9D265C791D@cesium.clock.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 08:29:33 -0800 (PST)
From: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
| These were delegated on the return of nets 49 and 50, along w/ about a
| /9 of mixed /16 and /24 space. e.g. an overall reduction in the
| amount of space. Jon Postel, as the IANA, approved the transfers.
| At that time, ARIN did not have control over legacy delegations.
So I seem to be missing something that keeps me from understanding this --
why didn't they just turn off the /9 of mixed /16 and /24 space and
keep the two pre-existing historical class-As, which would have more
fully followed the BCPs?
Sean.
