44/8

Fri Jul 19 03:56:55 UTC 2019

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:50 PM Majdi S. Abbas <msa at latt.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:47:21PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > Also, who's this 'we'.. I don't live in california... I presume UC is
> > getting funding from california, not virginia. (mostly)
> > It seems though that 44/8 was being used in some research project at
> > UC so... maybe this is just that still at play.
> > less nefarious and more 'meh, why change if we don't have to?'
>
>         [Off-NANOG]
>
>         Chris,
>
>         Remember that state college systems receive federal education
> funding; some of your dollars are in this pot, too.

Sure,but... that space has been an internet telescope supporting
numerous research folk for a decade + (probably closer to 2 decades).
the amazon prefix is longer by a bit so won't really use the /8 even
if ucsd keeps the /8 up.

a bunch of this just sounds like grousing, which I guess is great...
but none of this is particularly un-predictable.
I find a bunch of the other sales far more sketchy :( I also find this
prefix hilarious:

  149.1.0.0/16  (not a sale, but surely available if you track down
the owner .. who owns a winery)

anyway, it'll be fun watching what happens with 44/8 I suppose.