https://1.1.1.1 link has details of the service. No official announcement from APNIC (though Geoff replied my direct email inquiry privately) I don’t know why this prefix was handed over to any company for a service without public consultation but again this may or may not be required. I am just suprised to see lack of transparency about this allocation rather than anything else. World needs more services like this to make internet better and safer, i don’t think it is important what IPs are , ie: opendns , they might not have fancy ip block but they get the job done!(well done!) Mehmet On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 6:06 PM Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 7:08 PM, <nop@imap.cc> wrote:
From what I can tell, this has not been "allocated" (probably closer to a LOA)? All contacts and maintainers on the inetnum object are still APNIC's, Cloudflare does not have free access to do whatever they want here.
Did you ask WHOIS? Looks like the /24 is Portable-Assigned to a joint project. I don't know that APNIC is necessarily required to make a public consultation;.
If it was from an ARIN block; ARIN wouldn't have to "ask the public either"... the Number Resource Policy allows for /24 micro-allocations for critical infrastructure, which exactly describes the nature of an anycasted /24 for the service IP of a shared open DNS recursive resolver service, and the RIR could potentially allocate from any block under their control that were deemed most suitable for the critical infrastructure.
Then again, maybe APNIC made a consultation at their February meeting in Nepal? One thing i'm sure is they wouldn't have to ask NANOG's permission.
$ whois 1.1.1.1 % [whois.apnic.net] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
% Information related to '1.1.1.0 - 1.1.1.255' % Abuse contact for '1.1.1.0 - 1.1.1.255' is 'abuse@apnic.net'
inetnum: 1.1.1.0 - 1.1.1.255 netname: APNIC-LABS descr: APNIC and Cloudflare DNS Resolver project descr: Routed globally by AS13335/Cloudflare descr: Research prefix for APNIC Labs country: AU org: ORG-ARAD1-AP admin-c: AR302-AP tech-c: AR302-AP mnt-by: APNIC-HM mnt-routes: MAINT-AU-APNIC-GM85-AP mnt-irt: IRT-APNICRANDNET-AU status: ASSIGNED PORTABLE remarks: --------------- remarks: All Cloudflare abuse reporting can be done via remarks: resolver-abuse@cloudflare.com remarks: --------------- last-modified: 2018-03-30T01:51:28Z source: APNIC
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