/8 end user assignment?

Fri Aug 5 08:14:49 UTC 2005

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, David Conrad wrote:

>
> ?
>
> % whois -h whois.arin.net 126.0.0.0
>
> OrgName:    Asia Pacific Network Information Centre

> ReferralServer: whois://whois.apnic.net
>
> NetRange:   126.0.0.0 - 126.255.255.255
> CIDR:       126.0.0.0/8
> 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?

probably this confusion comes due to some overload/misuse of 'arin' where
'local rir' should have been used, like apnic in this case :) It's
oscillated between the two 3 or 4 times in this discussion.