1/8 and 2/8 (was Re: New IPv4 Allocation to ARIN)

Mon Jan 19 22:24:39 UTC 2004

What about 1/8 and 2/8? Are those being reserved for 
something special
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <william at elan.net>
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 16:55
Subject: Re: New IPv4 Allocation to ARIN


> 
> 
> I don't know for certain and I'm guessing based on existing pattern (although
> for 70/8 ARIN did mention at one point it will be allocated to them I think).
> The pattern is that IANA tries to allocate blocks consequently to RIRs
> (don't know why, its not like like RIRs would be announcing blocks as /7 :)
> and right now this looks as as follows:
>  ARIN: 64/8 -> ... -> 79/8 (so next one is 71/8, then 72/8, etc)
>  RIPE: 80/8 -> .... ???? (so next one 85/8)
>  APNIC: 218/8 -> 223/8 (note: 223/8 had reserved /24 and APNIC turned down 
>         this allocation, so it remains in reserve)
>         61/8 -> 58/8 (so next one I'll guess to be 59/8, then 58/8)
>         Also I'm going to make a prediction that after 58/8, the next 
> block maybe 126/8 counting backwards again towards RIPE blocks
>  LACNIC: 200/8 -> 201/8 (I'm not certain which will be next, if I have to 
> guess, it might be 49/8 and 50/8)
>  AFRINIC: 196/8 -> 197/8 (too far away to guess any other ones)
> 
> We'll see how correct these predictions are, lets come back to this in say 
> year 2010 and then you can get me for being so very wrong :)
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Owen DeLong wrote:
> 
> > Not to rain on your parade, but, how do you know 71 will go to ARIN and
> > not to RIPE, APNIC, or LACNIC or AfriNIC?
> > 
> > Owen
> > 
> > 
> > --On Monday, January 19, 2004 9:27 -0800 william at elan.net wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > It has been known for quite some time that next block to be allocated to
> > > ARIN is 70/8 (and next one will be 71/8). It might have been nice if ARIN
> > > were to run projections and inform community that by its projections it
> > > will be requesting new /8 ip block in say 2 month time.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> On 16.01 13:13, jlewis at lewis.org wrote:
> > >> > ...
> > >> > Alternatively, the RIRs might consider doing this sort of thing before
> > >> > allocating IPs from new blocks.  I know it's not their job to make sure
> > >> > IPs are routable (especially not on every remote network), but as
> > >> > holders of all the IPs, they are in the best position to setup such
> > >> > test sites that would expose problems before they're dumped on
> > >> > members.
> > >>
> > >> Personally I agree with you and I will argue accordingly in the relevant
> > >> places. Cooperation with the bogon project seems logical too.
> > >>
> > >> Daniel
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