Re: APNIC returning 223/8 to IANA

[Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:11:06AM -0500, Andy Dills wrote:
> Anybody else think IANA should tell APNIC to take what was issued and
> STFU? I mean, come on, you're want a different /8 because a single /24 at
> the very end was reserved? And you're trying to convince us that the
> intelligent people in the AP have no way of coming to grips with the
> concept of "RESERVED"?
>
> Hell, just allocate that single /24 back to IANA and nobody has to deal
> with the earth shattering difficulty of translating RESERVED.
>
> Somebody has to deal with the issue of breaking the pretty aggregation due
> to the /24 at the end. Why does APNIC feel it shouldn't be them that must
> deal with this small problem? That region of the net certainly causes its
> share of problems.

If APNIC doesn't want it, I'm sure I could find someone who does. :)

Yes this is remarkably silly. What could possibly be broken by a reserved 
/24 out of a /8.

-- 
Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)