9 Dec
2002
9 Dec
'02
1:23 p.m.
Alec H. Peterson wrote:
--On Monday, December 9, 2002 9:48 -0500 Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
The problem here is that ARIN (and the other registries) are the ones who can contact the users.
But Michael is not talking about the registries _contacting_ people with a message about changes in unallocated blocks, he's talking about one specific regional registry providing a list of all unallocated space (that still 'belongs' to IANA/ICANN).
IANA already maintains a public list of assigned space, and thus by negation a list of unassigned space. Anyone who cares enough to update their filters has all the information they need to. While sending gratuitous messages to ASN/SWIP contacts is a nice idea, it's still gratuitous. S