[96070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Sun Apr 15 21:37:17 2007
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:58:39 +0100."
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:34:01 +0000
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > We checked with IANA, ARIN, and the US DoD regarding 7.0.0.0/8. We
> > 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?
Or better yet, 11/8 (to make 10/7)?
Stephen
