Re: New IPv4 Allocations for APNIC

["Kevin Oberman" <oberman () es net>]

> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:42:52 +0300 (EEST)
> From: Pekka Savola <pekkas () netcore fi>
>
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:17:23 -0700
> > > From: Steve Conte <conte () iana org>
> > > Sender: owner-nanog () merit edu
> > >
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following two (2) 
> > > IPv4 /8 blocks to APNIC:
> > >
> > > 58/8
> > > 59/8
> > >
> > > For a full list of IANA IPv4 allocations please see: 
> > > <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space>.
> >
> > While it's certainly nice to have these posted and I really do
> > appreciate it, is there any chance that they might be signed so we can
> > authenticate them some day?
>
> Are you asking for IANA to provide the IANA web site using HTTPS to
> mitigate HTTP hijacking, DNS spoofing, or whatever?

This would be one way. I'd prefer a PGP signed message, but I know that
the people who use S/MIME would probably object. 

It would be too easy to get many people to pull an entry from a filter
with a forged message and have the space used "improperly".
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman () es net                       Phone: +1 510 486-8634