[ale] No more /8s!

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 19:50 -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote: 
> On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 19:43 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 19:05 -0500, Michael Trausch wrote: 
> > > >From theiana on Twitter: 39/8 and 106/8 allocated to #APNIC. 5
> > unicast #IPv4
> > > /8s remain to be allocated
> > 
> > I hate twitter.  POS OCD garbage.  URL to a reference or just a
> > another
> > drive my from twits?
> > 
> > > Wonder when the last 5 actually go.
> > 
> > By policy, they go immediately.  If the last two prior to that have
> > gone, the final 5 are to be allocated 1 per RIR at that time.  The
> > deal
> > is done.  This was the policy set over a year ago at IANA.  It's only
> > a
> > matter of which to who.
> > 
> > And the race was won and it was January and not February. 

> From APNIC: http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/delegation

Yeah, now that I wil accept.

> From IANA: https://twitter.com/#!/theiana/status/32227138937561089

Sorry...  Twitter is not an acceptable authoritative source "from IANA"
I don't care who the person is.  It has to be on an authoritative web
site.

> Also:
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml

> The last link shows 39/8 and 106/8 to APNIC.

Saw that.  Counted the remaining blocks.

> For the moment, Wikipedia still shows net-39 and net-106 as unallocated.
> 
> Apparently, the /usr/bin/whois binary on my system won't even check
> whois, I get:
> 
> 2011-01-31 19:49:05 EST (Linux 2.6.35-25-generic)
> <mbt at aloe> ~ $ whois 39.0.0.0
> Unknown AS number or IP network. Please upgrade this program.
> 
> 2011-01-31 19:49:06 EST (Linux 2.6.35-25-generic)
> <mbt at aloe> ~ $ whois 106.0.0.0
> Unknown AS number or IP network. Please upgrade this program.
> 
> IANA shows it in WHOIS:
> http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/whois?q=39.0.0.0
> http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/whois?q=106.0.0.0

> So, just need to see what happens with the others, haven't seen them
> yet.

This will happen shortly.

> 	--- Mike

Mike
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