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Re: ARIN, and reservations?

  • From: Alex Rubenstein
  • Date: Thu May 17 13:50:00 2001

Who 'allowed' you to announce the /19 when you had a /20 of it?

ARIN, at least to us, has been clear on not announcing what isn't
assigned.


> In the spirit of full disclosure, we were being boneheads and using
> addresses in the reserved space under the mistaken assumption that
> since we were being allowed to advertise the whole /19, and had intent
> to use it, and were going to ask for the other side, it was OK to use
> that space. Not so.
> 
> It would have been nice if ARIN had dropped an automated note to the
> effect of, "Hey, you've got x months to apply for this space before we
> re-assign it."
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris Kilbourn
> Chief Technical Officer
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