Selecting which /8 to allocate to an RIR
10 Sep 2009
I’ve previously written about the problem with IPv4 /8s which have been used to number IP networks in an unofficial and improper way.
The problem is that the unofficial usage makes it more difficult for ISPs to bring these addresses into use when they are officially allocated and so less desirable. But we have to allocate IPv4 addresses to the RIRs as long as we still have them and they still request them. We just need to implement a mechanism to select which /8 is allocated to which RIR.
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