Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC

[Richard Barnes <richard.barnes () gmail com>]

To echo and earlier post, what's the operational importance of
assigning adjacent /8s?  Are you hoping to aggregate them into a /7?
--Richard

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:16 AM, William Allen Simpson
<william.allen.simpson () gmail com> wrote:
> Nick Hilliard wrote:
> > On 22/01/2010 13:54, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> > > Why not 36 & 37?
> >
> > Random selection to ensure that no RIR can accuse IANA of bias.  See
> > David's previous post:
> >
> > http://blog.icann.org/2009/09/selecting-which-8-to-allocate-to-an-rir/
> Because relying on a blog post for policy really meets everybody's
> definition of rationality.... :-(
>
> If you're assigning 2 at the same time, they should be adjacent.
>
> The dribbles here and there policy never was particularly satisfying,
> because it assumes that this was all temporary until the widespread
> deployment of IPv6.