[66652] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New IPv4 Allocation to ARIN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william@elan.net)
Mon Jan 19 11:35:56 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:27:38 -0800 (PST)
From: william@elan.net
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040119101039.GZ625@arbeit.karrenberg.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
It has been known for quite some time that next block to be allocated to
ARIN is 70/8 (and next one will be 71/8). It might have been nice if ARIN
were to run projections and inform community that by its projections it
will be requesting new /8 ip block in say 2 month time.
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
>
> On 16.01 13:13, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
> > ...
> > Alternatively, the RIRs might consider doing this sort of thing before
> > allocating IPs from new blocks. I know it's not their job to make sure
> > IPs are routable (especially not on every remote network), but as holders
> > of all the IPs, they are in the best position to setup such test sites
> > that would expose problems before they're dumped on members.
>
> Personally I agree with you and I will argue accordingly in the relevant places.
> Cooperation with the bogon project seems logical too.
>
> Daniel
