Re: legacy /8

[Steve Bertrand <steve () ibctech ca>]

On 2010.04.02 19:29, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa () latt net>
> To: "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" <nanog2 () adns net>
> Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog () nanog org>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 5:52 PM
> Subject: Re: legacy /8
>
>
> > On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 05:48:44PM -0500, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
> > > On the topic of IP4 exhaustion:  1/8, 2/8 and 5/8 have all been
> > > assigned in the last 3 months yet I don't see them being allocated
> > > out to customers (users) yet.
> > >
> > > Is this perhaps a bit of hoarding in advance of the complete
> > > depletion of /8's?
> >
> > Doubt it.  1/8 is still being evaluated to determine just how usable
> > portions of it are, thanks to silly people of the world that decided
> > 1.1.1.x and the like were 1918 space.
> >
> > As for the others, the RIR requests it when they are running low,
> > but certainly not exhausted, and as slow as people are to update their
> > bogon filters, it sounds like general good practice not to assign out of
> > a new /8 until pre-existing resources are exhausted.
>
> Was looking for the "allocated" file on the ARIN website, but can't
> remember
> where it is. They used to have a file with one line per allocation that
> started
> like this "arin|US|ipv4".  Is that still public somewhere?

If you are looking for what blocks have been allocated to ARIN by IANA,
the file is maintained on the IANA site:

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

If you're referring to the IP space ARIN has issued out, I don't know if
there is a single authoritative text list (at least I couldn't find one
quickly). There is a mailing list maintained by ARIN that tracks daily
issued blocks, but it appears to have archives going back only to late 2k8:

http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-issued

Steve