Re: heads up on 80/8 [actually operational, so don't read this!!!]

[James Aldridge <jhma () mcvax org>]

Sean M. Doran wrote:
> RIPE is now allocating subnets of 80/8 to end users.
>
> In order to avoid the ugliness of various people announcing 80/8
> without guaranateeing transit to all the subnets, if you are filtering
> subnets of this /8, please relax your filters to allow /20s and shorter,

RIPE have also been allocated 81/8 so it won't be *too* long before the same
applies in that block too.  Why not get the filtering change for the whole /7
out of the way now...

> On behalf of random Europeans,

James
(A random European, and co-chair of the RIPE Local IR Working Group)