On 21 Jan 2010, at 3:54, Nathan Ward wrote: [...]
The IANA IPv4 registry has been updated to reflect the allocation of two /8 IPv4 blocks to APNIC in January 2010: 1/8 and 27/8. You can find the IANA IPv4 registry at:
1/8 is going to be interesting.
Interesting? It's going to be absolutely fantastically hilarious! But only for those of us who don't commonly talk with people whe end up assigned addresses in 1/15 and 1.2/16, and probably the rest of 1/8.
Has APNIC done any reachability analysis on these prefixes yet? (advertising a /24 out of it and seeing how long it takes for various places on the Internet to see the prefix?)
Apparently Leo looked in to 1/8 a bit: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_10-3/103_awkw...
That article was really meant to forewarn people that all the unallocated IPv4 address space is going to be allocated. The actual research ICANN sponsored was done by Duane Wessels, not me. He presented it at a DNS OARC meeting and details are available on the web site at: https://www.dns-oarc.net/files/dnsops-2008/Wessels-Unused-space.pdf Regards, Leo