197/8

3 Dec 1998

      Question: is 197/8 being allocated?

I see these:

                       MAE-East Looking Glass Results

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                                 Query: bgp
                        Addr: 197.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 l

BGP table version is 13188566, local router ID is 165.117.1.121
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

   Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path
* i197.67.126.0     198.32.136.129  4294967294    100      0 1239 i
* i197.71.190.0     137.39.129.153  4294967294    100      0 701 816 i
* i197.98.2.0       198.32.136.129  4294967294    100      0 1239 i

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But I also see this:

asp@home-9189: whois -h whois.arin.net 197.0.0.0
IANA (NETBLK-RESERVED-13)
   Information Sciences Institute
   University of Southern California
   4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
   Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695

   Netname: RESERVED-13
   Netblock: 197.0.0.0 - 197.255.255.255

Thanks,
	--asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)