Re: 1.0.0.0/8 route from MERIT ?

[Geoff Huston <gih () apnic net>]

On 25/02/2010, at 6:13 AM, Alex H. Ryu wrote:

> Today I jumped into one of our routers, and I found that 1.0.0.0/8 is
> announced from AS237, which is MERIT.
>
>
>    Network            Next Hop        Metric LocPrf Weight Path
> *>  1.0.0.0/8          4.59.200.5      0      60     0      (65001
> 65105) 3356 7018 237 i
>
> Is this supposed to be?
> I thought 1.0.0.0/8 is allocated to APNIC.

Yes, this is supposed to be. This is one of a number of planned experiments in advertising all and selected parts of 
1/8 in the coming weeks.

Geoff Huston
APNIC