RE: heads up on 80/8 [actually operational, so don't read this!!!]

["Daniel Golding" <dan () netrail net>]

ICANN. Operational Announcement. Same Sentence. An interesting concept, but
no.

- Daniel Golding

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> John M . Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 11:00 AM
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: heads up on 80/8 [actually operational, so don't read
> this!!!]
>
>
>
> Several weeks old info.  I am suprised that ICANN and or RIPE haven't made
> the operational announcement to the NANOG or other lists.
>
> Thanks for posting it to NANOG
>
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:48:38AM -0700, Sean M. Doran wrote:
> > Hello, long time no see -
> >
> > RIPE is now allocating subnets of 80/8 to end users.
> >
> > In order to avoid the ugliness of various people announcing 80/8
> > without guaranateeing transit to all the subnets, if you are filtering
> > subnets of this /8, please relax your filters to allow /20s and shorter,
> >
> > On behalf of random Europeans,
> >
> >     Sean.  (yeah, ok, this is at least partially work-related-stuff...)