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RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Sun Apr 15 18:00:00 2007

Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:58:39 +0100
In-Reply-To: <22CA6948-DED7-43CC-B2EA-D4C2EA21B385@cymru.com>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> We checked with IANA, ARIN, and the US DoD regarding 7.0.0.0/8.  We =20
> were told that this netblock should not see the light of day,

10/8 used to be a DoD address block, but it was also used exclusively in
their blacker networks and similar non-connected infrastructure. The
result is that 10/8 was opened up for others to use as well. Could we do
similar with 7/8?

--Michael Dillon

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