/8 end user assignment?

Fri Aug 5 07:41:36 UTC 2005

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% whois -h whois.arin.net 126.0.0.0

OrgName:    Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
OrgID:      APNIC
Address:    PO Box 2131
City:       Milton
StateProv:  QLD
PostalCode: 4064
Country:    AU

ReferralServer: whois://whois.apnic.net

NetRange:   126.0.0.0 - 126.255.255.255
CIDR:       126.0.0.0/8
NetName:    APNIC-126
NetHandle:  NET-126-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType:    Allocated to APNIC
NameServer: DNS03.BBTEC.NET
NameServer: DNS04.BBTEC.NET
NameServer: SEC1.APNIC.NET
Comment:    This IP address range is not registered in the ARIN  
database.
Comment:    For details, refer to the APNIC Whois Database via
Comment:    WHOIS.APNIC.NET or http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl
Comment:    ** IMPORTANT NOTE: APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry
Comment:    for the Asia Pacific region. APNIC does not operate networks
Comment:    using this IP address range and is not able to investigate
Comment:    spam or abuse reports relating to these addresses. For more
Comment:    help, refer to http://www.apnic.net/info/faq/abuse
RegDate:    2005-01-27
Updated:    2005-04-29

OrgTechHandle: AWC12-ARIN
OrgTechName:   APNIC Whois Contact
OrgTechPhone:  +61 7 3858 3100
OrgTechEmail:  search-apnic-not-arin at apnic.net

On Aug 5, 2005, at 12:35 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:

>       On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, David Conrad wrote:
>
>> They are one of the largest ISPs in Japan.
>>
>
> And this helps them justify a /8 _in the US_ how?
>
>                                 -Bill
>