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

[Bruce Campbell <bc () vicious dropbear id au>]

On Wed, 16 May 2001, John M . Brown wrote:

> While I could agree that its not a problem till someone tries to use it,
> I point out that ARIN does make an announcement when they are going
> to start issuing from a new IANA block.

And I'll counter-point out that ARIN is notifying relevant groups in its
Region.  Why would you expect the RIPE NCC to formally notify a group
(nanog) that is not in its region (Europe) ?  

To keep this operational, this lists the various /8s and who is
(nominally) in charge of 'em; it may be of interest to people who haven't
reviewed their filters in ages:

        http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

> We, The Net Operators, should have this information so that we can update
> our filters, should we see fit to, and thus cause as little negative impact
> as possible.  

s/The Net/The North American Network/
s/possible/possible to traffic that transists North America/

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Bruce.

currently not in North America, and certainly speaking for myself ;)