On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:54:12PM -0700, Mike Batchelor wrote:
24.0/8 is the "cable block".
No it's not. Check out 24.132/14 for instance.
IANA and ARIN seem to think it is... Check out: http://www.iana.org/assignments/network-24 The "Network 24 - Cable Block" will link to the following text: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Date: May 11, 2001 The IANA has completed the administrative transfer of responsibility for 24.0.0.0 - 24.255.255.255 (Cable Block) to the American Regional Internet Registry (ARIN). Questions or Whois information for this 24/8 block should be directed to ARIN <www.arin.net>. I'm sure a few legacy allocations in 24/8 space will happen to slip through...
Nearly all the cable operators have one slice or another from this block.
Perhaps this is true in the US.
Nearly all North American cable modems users have address space in this block.
No they don't.
Well since I don't think you can argue Canadian cable modems follow different patterns, you seem to have contradicted yourself...
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