FW: 72/8 friendly reminder

Thu Mar 24 21:20:10 UTC 2005

ARIN supports the idea of doing reachability testing on new /8 blocks issued
by the IANA and will begin to set a plan in motion to move forward on this.
Once more details have been worked out, we will notify the community.

Regards,

Leslie Nobile
Director, Registration Services
American Registry for Internet Numbers

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Randy Bush
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 1:51 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

>> We were recently assigned a 72.244/16 allocation from ARIN. Friendly 
>> reminder that ARIN started allocating 72/8 since Aug. If you have a 
>> static bogon filters, can you please make sure they are updated. 
>> Thank
> if you are really worried about this, and i can understand your being 
> so, then make it easy for the busy folk here (not those pontificating 
> on law and morals in the rocky mountains) to test.
> give us an address we can ping.

a bit more coffee made me realize that what might best occur would be for
the rir, some weeks BEFORE assigning from a new block issued by the iana,
put up a pingable for that space and announce it on the lists so we can all
test BEFORE someone uses space from that block.

randy