[54037] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Mon Dec 9 13:31:30 2002
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
To: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>,
"Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:23:26 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Alec H. Peterson wrote:
> --On Monday, December 9, 2002 9:48 -0500 Leo Bicknell
> <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
>> The problem here is that ARIN (and the other registries) are the
>> ones who can contact the users.
>
> But Michael is not talking about the registries _contacting_ people
> with a message about changes in unallocated blocks, he's talking
> about one specific regional registry providing a list of all
> unallocated space (that still 'belongs' to IANA/ICANN).
IANA already maintains a public list of assigned space, and thus by negation
a list of unassigned space. Anyone who cares enough to update their filters
has all the information they need to.
While sending gratuitous messages to ASN/SWIP contacts is a nice idea, it's
still gratuitous.
S
