Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...

["Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk () cisco com>]

Alec H. Peterson wrote:
> --On Monday, December 9, 2002 9:48 -0500 Leo Bicknell
> <bicknell () ufp org> wrote:
> > The problem here is that ARIN (and the other registries) are the
> > ones who can contact the users.
>
> But Michael is not talking about the registries _contacting_ people
> with a message about changes in unallocated blocks,  he's talking
> about one specific regional registry providing a list of all
> unallocated space (that still 'belongs' to IANA/ICANN).

IANA already maintains a public list of assigned space, and thus by negation
a list of unassigned space.  Anyone who cares enough to update their filters
has all the information they need to.

While sending gratuitous messages to ASN/SWIP contacts is a nice idea, it's
still gratuitous.

S