http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
Not quite, I still show 102/8, 103/8, 104/8, 179/8, and 185/8 as
"UNALLOCATED". I don't know when the hand out the last 5 /8's policy takes
affect, but they haven't handed them out yet.
As noted in the "quietly" thread...(very good thread btw), the last 5 will be automatically allocated across the rirs "shortly".
~J
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
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Not quite, I still show 102/8, 103/8, 104/8, 179/8, and 185/8 as
"UNALLOCATED". I don't know when the hand out the last 5 /8's policy takes
affect, but they haven't handed them out yet.
cron is your friend:
~$ wget -O - -q
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.txt
grep UNALLOCATED | grep '^ * [1234567890]' | wc -l
5
Ceremony is scheduled for 9:30 AM Thursday Local Time in Miami, FL.
Owen
I can't wait to see who gets 179/8; I would *so* love to be able to use
179.179.179.179 as a BGP route collection box. 
Perhaps whomever gets it could donate the box to team Cymru? 
Matt
My guesses as to who gets what:
102/8 - APNIC
103/8 - LACNIC
104/8 - AfriNIC
179/8 - RIPE NCC
185/8 - ARIN
That's how I would do it. With the exception of LACNIC, each one neighbors a block that is already allocated to that RIR.
And in the case of AfriNIC, RIPC, and ARIN, they would make an aggregatable /7. Not that that really means anything, but is nice for organization 
-Randy
But if they wanted to do that, why give 106/8 to APNIC?
My suspicion is that IANA is playing a game of battleship with the RIRs and thursday we'll see who's won. Colored in for your convenience:
> That's how I would do it. With the exception of LACNIC, each one
> neighbors a block that is already allocated to that RIR.But if they wanted to do that, why give 106/8 to APNIC?
I assume you mean 102/8, and because it is right next to 101/8, which they already have. Doesn't make a nice /7, but there are no other unallocated blocks that are next to any APNIC blocks.
My suspicion is that IANA is playing a game of battleship with the
RIRs and thursday we'll see who's won. Colored in for your
convenience:
Doesn't really matter who gets what, because no one is going to route anything larger than a /8 anyway, particularly the RIR allocations. Just kinda fun to think about
-Randy
Doesn't really matter who gets what
but conjecturebation is a key role of this mailing list
because no one is going to route anything larger than a /8 anyway,
i have seen /7s routed. some folk on this list will remember an
exciting day back in about 2000.
randy
> Doesn't really matter who gets what
but conjecturebation is a key role of this mailing list
I literally LOLed at that. That single word more succinctly describes a concept than most I have seen.
> because no one is going to route anything larger than a /8 anyway,
i have seen /7s routed. some folk on this list will remember an
exciting day back in about 2000.
Aye. I think there have been worse routing snafus that routing a /7, though.
-Randy
Doesn't really matter who gets what, because no one is going to route anything larger than a /8 anyway, particularly the RIR allocations. Just kinda fun to think about
-Randy
How about when HP/Compay/DEC buys Apple or the other way around ?
They could do so in theory anyway.
Touché! That could theoretically happen. I think Apple should buy HPQDEC just so they can announce 16/7
None of the RIR blocks are going to be routed that way on purpose, though
-Randy
Randy Carpenter wrote:
Touché! That could theoretically happen. I think Apple should buy HPQDEC just so they can announce 16/7
Nah, one should buy the other just so they can hand over a /7 to APNIC.
How would they justify that to their shareholders?
(I mean turning over the addresses - the merger itself would be a more challenging question.)
-Benson
At this point, IPv4 could be done before the regulatory process completed.
Owen
Neither of them could do that. Both are in the ARIN region.
Owen
Benson Schliesser wrote:
IANA instituted a variation of RFC 2777 some time ago to do /8 allocations to the RIRs. I'd be surprised if they deviated from that process for the last 5 /8s.
Regards,
-drc