[83077] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /8 end user assignment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Thu Aug 4 14:30:48 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0508041905050.1697-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:30:02 -0700
To: Stephen J.Wilcox <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Stephen,
If you can justify a /8, ARIN will allocate one to you (not that I
speak for ARIN or anything, but that's how things work). Presumably
Softbank BB justified the /8 APNIC allocated to them.
Rgds,
-drc
On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> Ok, back up a second....
>
> 126/8 Jan 05 APNIC (whois.apnic.net)
>
> inetnum: 126.0.0.0 - 126.255.255.255
> netname: BBTEC
> descr: Japan Nation-wide Network of Softbank BB Corp.
> status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE
> changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20050208
>
>
> i thought the decade of giving class A's to large corporates had
> long since
> passed.. we've got some major network rollout coming up, i need an
> extra 16
> million IPs, so can i get one?
>
> wtf?
>
> Steve
>
