Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC

[Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda () icann org>]

On 22 Jan 2010, at 11:52, Joe Abley wrote:
> > I think it would certainly be useful, both diagnostically and operationally,
> > for IANA and the RIR's to *actually announce* the unused space, and run either or
> > both of tar-pits and honey-pots on those, for just such a reason - to gauge problems
> > that might exist on "unused" space, *before* the space is assigned.
>
> I believe the RIRs have already been doing this with each /8 they've received from the IANA for quite some time.

And indeed the latest APNIC stats file shows that they have made assignments from their new /8s, presumably for this 
purpose:

apnic   AP      ipv4    1.0.0.0 256     20100122        assigned
apnic   AP      ipv4    1.1.1.0 256     20100122        assigned
apnic   AP      ipv4    1.2.3.0 256     20100122        assigned
apnic   AP      ipv4    1.50.0.0        1024    20100122        allocated
apnic   AP      ipv4    1.255.0.0       65536   20100122        allocated
apnic   AP      ipv4    27.0.0.0        256     20100122        assigned
apnic   AP      ipv4    27.50.0.0       1024    20100122        allocated
apnic   AP      ipv4    27.255.0.0      65536   20100122        allocated

Regards,

Leo