[96707] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OK - functioning administration of 44.0.0.0/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon May 21 20:19:18 2007
In-Reply-To: <200705220011.BAA20163@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:16:11 -0700
To: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Any reason it hasn't migrated over to IPv6 and 44/8 returned to the
free pool?
Thanks,
-drc
On May 21, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
>
>> The last time I looked into this there wasn't anything being done
>> with
>> the block
>
> It's been in use for a very long time (>10years)
>
>> but now I see lots of people assigned to do various things -
>> should have looked before I said anything, but in 2001 this was
>> totally
>> dead, at least in Iowa/Nebraska.
>
> Over the last few years broadband availability has obsoleted many
> uses of it.
>
> There was some 44. vpn'd over the Internet (probably
> still is, I closed the GB7BBC gateway into that last year)
>
> As there are legal restrictions on traffic into amateur networks
> it's generally not directly connected to the Internet
>
> brandon
>
>