[88350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 74/8 75/8 76/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Wed Feb 1 15:59:11 2006
In-Reply-To: <20060201205035.GI826@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:58:43 -0500
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 03:36:31PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>>
>> 74/8, 75/8, and 76/8
>> These /20's out of ASN 36666 Cymru Testing:
>>
>> 74.63.0.0/20
>> 75.127.0.0/20
>> 76.191.0.0/20
>>
>> ...should be withdrawn now. Allocation out of 74/8 happened
>> on 12/20/2005 and 76/8 1/19/2006.
>>
>> Operationally, the testing should stop prior to allocations
>> from the block, regardless of size. I think it's a binary
>> question, they're either in production or not, and if they are,
>> there should be no intrusive testing.
>
>It looks like they were given real ARIN allocations for those test
>prefixes, so its not like those blocks are going to assigned to some
>random network who goes to use them and finds out there is a Cymru
>announcement on their space.
Good point. ARIN doesn't have a policy to release space
for testing so it must be real. There's a lot of reasons
why they should come out and be returned to the pool besides
the whois listing which is why I made the (operational) post.
Stop picking on me ras. :) I've got whole countries on me.
-M<
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