/8 end user assignment?

David Conrad david.conrad at nominum.com
Thu Aug 4 18:30:02 UTC 2005


Stephen,

If you can justify a /8, ARIN will allocate one to you (not that I  
speak for ARIN or anything, but that's how things work).  Presumably  
Softbank BB justified the /8 APNIC allocated to them.

Rgds,
-drc

On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

>
> Ok, back up a second....
>
> 126/8   Jan 05   APNIC                               (whois.apnic.net)
>
> inetnum:      126.0.0.0 - 126.255.255.255
> netname:      BBTEC
> descr:        Japan Nation-wide Network of Softbank BB Corp.
> status:       ALLOCATED PORTABLE
> changed:      hm-changed at apnic.net 20050208
>
>
> i thought the decade of giving class A's to large corporates had  
> long since
> passed.. we've got some major network rollout coming up, i need an  
> extra 16
> million IPs, so can i get one?
>
> wtf?
>
> Steve
>




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