heads up on 80/8 [actually operational, so don't read this!!!]

Wed May 16 15:00:24 UTC 2001

Several weeks old info.  I am suprised that ICANN and or RIPE haven't made
the operational announcement to the NANOG or other lists.

Thanks for posting it to NANOG

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:48:38AM -0700, Sean M. Doran wrote:
> 
> Hello, long time no see -
> 
> RIPE is now allocating subnets of 80/8 to end users.
> 
> In order to avoid the ugliness of various people announcing 80/8
> without guaranateeing transit to all the subnets, if you are filtering
> subnets of this /8, please relax your filters to allow /20s and shorter,
> 
> On behalf of random Europeans,
> 
> 	Sean.  (yeah, ok, this is at least partially work-related-stuff...)
> 