[54023] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Mon Dec 9 10:12:57 2002
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 08:12:24 -0700
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20021209150452.GB51475@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Monday, December 9, 2002 10:04 -0500 Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
wrote:
>
> Point is, end users don't deal with IANA. They deal with the
> registries and for those in North America (this is nanog, isn't
> it) ARIN is it. As the communities desigated represenative to
> interface with IANA, I feel it is ARIN's duty to collect and
> distribute information from IANA.
That is a good point, but you are talking about a periodic notification
when new blocks are allocated. Michael is talking about an automated feed
of all unallocated blocks. If we were to invert this and say that ARIN
will provide a list of all blocks that are allocated to it, then that might
be worth doing. Then each RIR could provide its own list and we don't run
into the issues of a registry listing objects that it does not control.
However, I get back to my original question. For people who insist on
filtering unallocated address space, is it too much to ask that they either
subscribe to NANOG, or potentially subscribe to an RIR-specific
announce-only mailing list for such things? It seems really silly to me
for the registries to spew a mailing to their entire contact database just
to reach a handful of people who actually do route filtering.
It does seem to me that this problem should have a really simple solution.
Alec
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Alec H. Peterson -- ahp@hilander.com
Chief Technology Officer
Catbird Networks, http://www.catbird.com
