1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC

Fri Jan 22 20:06:07 UTC 2010

On 22 Jan 2010, at 11:52, Joe Abley wrote:
>> 
>> I think it would certainly be useful, both diagnostically and operationally,
>> for IANA and the RIR's to *actually announce* the unused space, and run either or
>> both of tar-pits and honey-pots on those, for just such a reason - to gauge problems
>> that might exist on "unused" space, *before* the space is assigned.
> 
> I believe the RIRs have already been doing this with each /8 they've received from the IANA for quite some time.

And indeed the latest APNIC stats file shows that they have made assignments from their new /8s, presumably for this purpose:

apnic	AP	ipv4	1.0.0.0	256	20100122	assigned
apnic	AP	ipv4	1.1.1.0	256	20100122	assigned
apnic	AP	ipv4	1.2.3.0	256	20100122	assigned
apnic	AP	ipv4	1.50.0.0	1024	20100122	allocated
apnic	AP	ipv4	1.255.0.0	65536	20100122	allocated
apnic	AP	ipv4	27.0.0.0	256	20100122	assigned
apnic	AP	ipv4	27.50.0.0	1024	20100122	allocated
apnic	AP	ipv4	27.255.0.0	65536	20100122	allocated

Regards,

Leo