[96042] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sat Apr 14 17:11:47 2007
In-Reply-To: <E875D72C-AFAC-4B67-989A-AB375B3DC80F@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:10:53 -0700
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Apr 14, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> And who, exactly, gets to tell IANA/ICANN how to do its job??
As far as I can tell, pretty much everyone on the planet... :-)
More seriously, registrants typically control their registration
data. 7.0.0.0/8 is an extreme version of this and is a unique case
that has its roots in a historical mistake. As I said, ARIN and IANA
are working to remedy the situation.
Rgds,
-drc
