[56811] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: APNIC returning 223/8 to IANA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Borchers)
Mon Mar 17 13:51:53 2003
From: "Mark Borchers" <mborchers@igillc.com>
To: "NANOG" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:51:17 -0600
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303170926350.12785-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to strongly encourage IANA to reexamine all current IANA-Reserved
> blocks, decide which ones will remain Reserved for the forseeable future,
> and which are likely candidates for assignment to RIRs at any future date,
> and update these to a more suggestive status such as
> Future-RIR-Assignment. Otherwise, we're going to repeat the 69/8 exercise
> (signifigant parts of the net ignoring the space months after
> assignment...some parts ignoring it likely for years) every time a net
> goes from being IANA-Reserved to assigned to some RIR.
That's probably a good idea from a practical standpoint. It's
just hard to swallow the idea of IANA having to make policy a
certain way just to accomodate the operators who aren't paying
attention.
Sorry for prolonging an endless debate.
