APNIC returning 223/8 to IANA

Mon Mar 17 18:51:17 UTC 2003

> -----Original Message-----
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, jlewis at lewis.org wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to strongly encourage IANA to reexamine all current IANA-Reserved
> blocks, decide which ones will remain Reserved for the forseeable future,
> and which are likely candidates for assignment to RIRs at any future date,
> and update these to a more suggestive status such as
> Future-RIR-Assignment.  Otherwise, we're going to repeat the 69/8 exercise
> (signifigant parts of the net ignoring the space months after
> assignment...some parts ignoring it likely for years) every time a net
> goes from being IANA-Reserved to assigned to some RIR.

That's probably a good idea from a practical standpoint.  It's
just hard to swallow the idea of IANA having to make policy a
certain way just to accomodate the operators who aren't paying
attention.

Sorry for prolonging an endless debate.