On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Andy Dills wrote:
Somebody has to deal with the issue of breaking the pretty aggregation due to the /24 at the end. Why does APNIC feel it shouldn't be them that must deal with this small problem? That region of the net certainly causes its share of problems.
ARIN has dealt with the issue of RESERVED blocks within /8 allocations for years (and InterNIC, SRI-NIC, etc for a decade?). I guess 223/8 could be allocated to ARIN instead, if APNIC can't fix their database software to handle special use allocations. Or IETF could reserve the entire 223/8 for future special use allocations instead of the current practice of using whatever space was next in the queue when a new special use request is made. Otherwise, some RIR will have to deal with future RESERVATIONS within a /8 eventually. It seems a bit wasteful to reserve an entire /8 just because RIR's can't deal with RESERVED allocations, but I don't run an RIR so I don't know the capabilities of the database tracking systems.