Re: legacy /8

["John Palmer \(NANOG Acct\)" <nanog2 () adns net>]

----- 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?

> Can we put the tinfoil hats away and let this thread die now?
>
> --msa

Good luck with that one :->