214/8 and 215/8

Thu Nov 1 15:29:15 UTC 2001

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:13:08PM +0000, Nigel Titley wrote:
> bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> > 
> > >   214/8 and 215/8 seem to have been allocated to the U.S. DoD in ca. 1998.
> > > There does seem to be a few sizeable announcements (which overlap a few
> > > not-so-sizable ones), but I have to wonder if anyone can explain the
> > > grounds on which they were allocated these two /8s, and which body
> > > did the allocation.   Anyone?
> > >
> > >       Sean.
> > 
> > I could. Why does it matter?
> 
> Oh, openness, transparency, that sort of thing. Nothing really
> important.

The full RFC2050 justification for a /7's worth of space would
be a mighty and wondrous thing to behold.

Joe