Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

[goemon () anime net]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.1209182339200.5518 () sasami anime net>, goemon () anime ne
> t writes:
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > > On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale <eyeronic.design () gmail com> wrote:
> > > > "this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world.  luckily, the
> > > > disease does not propagate sufficiently to cross oceans."
> > > >
> > > > I'd love to hear the reasoning for this.  Why would it be bad policy
> > > > to force companies to use the resources they are assigned or give them
> > > > back to the general pool?
> > > Many of them _ARE_ using them, just not using them directly on the public
> > > internet. There is nothing wrong with that.
> > >
> > > As others have said... !announced != !used.
> >
> > Is they are not using them directly on the public internet, then there's
> > no reason we can't use them.
> >
> > Problem solved!
>         !announced whole world != !announced.
>
>         There is a simple rule.

i guess my sarcasm was missed.

>         DO NOT USE ADDRESSES THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ALLOCATED.
>
>         Anything else has the potential to cause operational problems.

Tell that to the providers who keep routing hijacked blocks for spammers :)

-Dan