[afnog] ARIN to allocate from 74/8 & 75/8

Wed Sep 21 03:20:44 UTC 2005

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> as i said privately to someone, a few problems
>   o many of a large complex enterprise's sources from which it may
>     be desirable to test may be in 1918 space.

Don't forget the enterprises that number themselves out of 'unallocated'
space :) which might very well be the space that was just recently
released.

It's a really fun conversation when your customer (or some enterprise)
realizes that RFC1918 is there for a reason, and that their 10k person
network is going to need a really complicated renumber out of the
72.x.x.x/8 and into 10.x.x.x :(

Suffice it to say that there are a myriad of reasons these new allocations
could seem 'broken' to folks. Testing real-world applications seems like a
reasonable first step. Having an org (cymru in this case) able to provide
http/icmp targets on these prior to RIR allocations going bananas seems
like that first step. Those that wish to test can, those that don't
don't... simple?