[83103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /8 end user assignment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Fri Aug 5 02:56:02 2005
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 23:55:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508041441390.14461@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, David Conrad wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't know about APNIC, but ARIN's rules are generally structured to make
> justification of a /8 all but impossible. I suspect this is actually a typo
> or misreading of some sort.
The business of the rir's is providing ip addresses to their members. if
withholding the remaining address space became more important than
supporting the needs of the community of interest, then they've obviously
failed their membership.
> jms
>
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