1.0.0.0/8 route from MERIT ?

Wed Feb 24 19:30:32 UTC 2010

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 14:21 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 2010/2/24 Alex H. Ryu <r.hyunseog at ieee.org>:
> >
> > Today I jumped into one of our routers, and I found that 1.0.0.0/8 is
> > announced from AS237, which is MERIT.
> 
> IIRC, there was an email/wiki/announcement last month about 1/8
> undergoing some testing soon.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.txt


extract from that, last update 22/feb/2010:


Prefix                  Designation                    Date
Whois       Status [1]    Note
   000/8  IANA - Local Identification                    1981-09                    RESERVED     [2]
   001/8  APNIC                                          2010-01  whois.apnic.net   ALLOCATED
   002/8  RIPE NCC                                       2009-09  whois.ripe.net    ALLOCATED