-----Original Message----- On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
I'd like to strongly encourage IANA to reexamine all current IANA-Reserved blocks, decide which ones will remain Reserved for the forseeable future, and which are likely candidates for assignment to RIRs at any future date, and update these to a more suggestive status such as Future-RIR-Assignment. Otherwise, we're going to repeat the 69/8 exercise (signifigant parts of the net ignoring the space months after assignment...some parts ignoring it likely for years) every time a net goes from being IANA-Reserved to assigned to some RIR.
That's probably a good idea from a practical standpoint. It's just hard to swallow the idea of IANA having to make policy a certain way just to accomodate the operators who aren't paying attention. Sorry for prolonging an endless debate.