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

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

On Jan 22, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:
> Would it make sense for the RIRs to just carve out the bad parts of
> the blocks, instead of IANA?  Under current policy, would reserving
> "bad" bits make it more difficult for an RIR to get additional
> allocations?

Under existing policies, there is no way for IANA to carve out pieces of address blocks.  The /8s with pieces carved 
out of them by the IETF are/will be allocated to RIRs with an understanding that the RIRs aren't supposed to allocate 
the IETF-designated reserved chunks (which, presumably, they won't).

Regards,
-drc