On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 10:36:28AM +1300, Craig Anderson wrote:
I must say i'm slightly confused about the rationale here. Has Telecom issued a "renumber or move to us decree"?
Not formally, as far as I understand, but informally these things have happened (as was reported in the press recently after the issue was raised by Clearview).
Or is it just that they are advertising the NZGATE CIDR blocks? If they are pushing "renumber or move to us" then we should seek a legal opinion on the matter.
I hope that the operator community can come to an agreement about how these addresses should be handled without having to resort to lawyers or politicians (or any other form of proxy shouting and handwaving). It's in everybody's interests to clean up this issue. The end-user shouldn't hear conflicting stories about whether her network numbers are portable or not; it makes things cleaner if we can cut down the number of long-prefix routes flying about the country (and we will avoid any future problems from prefix-length filtering, as is now commonplace in Europe). Taking the millstone of documenting and accounting for the NZGATE address blocks off Telecom's neck is in their interests as well, as the current situation _cannot_ bode well for any future applications they might make to APNIC. Straw poll: _is_ this a good forum for straightening this out? Are people interested in doing so? Or should we really leave it to someone like ISOCNZ to sort out? Perhaps we need some lubrication to iron out the finer points. Anybody fancy a trip to Galbraith's on Friday evening? I will stand one drink for anybody prepared to agree with me on the list :) :) Joe -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog