1.0.0.0/8 route from MERIT ?

Wed Feb 24 19:39:06 UTC 2010

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On 2/24/2010 2:21 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 2010/2/24 Alex H. Ryu <r.hyunseog at ieee.org>:
>>
>> Today I jumped into one of our routers, and I found that 1.0.0.0/8 is
>> announced from AS237, which is MERIT.
> 
> IIRC, there was an email/wiki/announcement last month about 1/8
> undergoing some testing soon.

See the APNIC WHOIS for 1.0.0.0/8:

route:          1.0.0.0/8
descr:          MERIT Network Inc.
                1000 Oakbrook Drive, Suite 200
                Ann Arbor
                MI 48104, USA
origin:         AS237
mnt-by:         MAINT-AS237
remarks:        This announcement is part of an APNIC approved
experiment.  For additional
                information please send email to mkarir at merit.edu

This would appear related to Manish Karir's e-mail on the "How polluted
is 1/8" thread from 06 FEB 2010 (Message-ID:
<609933721.3935701265474878472.JavaMail.root at crono>).

Regards,
Tim Wilde

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Tim Wilde, Senior Software Engineer, Team Cymru, Inc.
twilde at cymru.com | +1-630-230-5433 | http://www.team-cymru.org/
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