Greetings,
This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated 83/8 and 84/8 to the RIPE NCC.
For a full list of IANA allocations please see : http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
Thanks,
Steve
Hurrah!
At last, an authoritative source posts the information.
I know IANA maintains the information on a FTP and Web site, and I
appreciate various third-parties that have re-packaged the information
into various forms; there is difference between an authoritative and
an ad-hoc source.
It would be good for them to sign such posts with
a well known PGP key...
] I know IANA maintains the information on a FTP and Web site, and I
] appreciate various third-parties that have re-packaged the information
] into various forms; there is difference between an authoritative and
] an ad-hoc source.
Agreed! Team Cymru thanks Steve and IANA for making the official
announcement. 
I thought it would be nice to compliment IANA before bashing him over the
head.
None of the ad-hoc sources nor RIPE signed their annoucements, so IANA
was in good company. IANA doesn't sign any of the published RFCs nor
any other data it maintains. So I'm not sure what difference it makes
whether the mail message is signed.
After we get IANA in the habit of publishing an annoucement when it
allocates a new IPv4 block to the RIRs, then we can work on improving
the process.
At least when I've been watching, the IANA/ICANN borg has made a public
post about new allocations being made to the RIRs to NANOG (and other
forums) within a reasonable timeframe.
I think that one problem here is that team Cymru, with their every half
hour page scraper of interesting sites, manages to beat the authoritative
people to the punch each time as team Cymru simply do not have the same
unseen formalities that the IANA/RIRs need to go through.
As long as RobT continues to be an amusing speaker, I'm not too worried 
Amusing? He qualifies as the worst speaker that I've seen in a long time,
if I want to see a monkey, I'll go to the zoo.
Henk
Of course, we don't want to get into a debate on the relative merits of
NANOG or RIPE speakers on this list, but given this comment...
Rob Thomas is an excellent speaker. He has his own distinctive style, but
the best speakers do. Many NANOG and RIPE speakers are, to put in likely, a
bit dull. Given the subject matter, this is excusable, but we should be
happy to see the occasional speaker like Rob or Bill Norton, who is willing
to take the extra effort to inject a vein of humor or excitement into their
talks.
Its easy to throw stones, but if one is truly unhappy with the quality of
speakers at NANOG, their course of action is clear - immediately submit a
speaking proposal to Susan.
- Daniel Golding
Dear All,
Please ignore my mail of 12:40 today.
As half a dozen people have asked me by now, no this was not intended for
the full list, just for one of the posters, and I should have paid more
attention to what my mail program said it was going to do, rather than
assume that it'd do what I though it should do.
Sorry.
Henk (back to hiding under my desk for the rest of the day).
I'll take Rob's presentations any day of the week.
-Hank
: > As long as RobT continues to be an amusing speaker, I'm not too
: > worried
:
: Amusing? He qualifies as the worst speaker that I've seen in a long time,
: if I want to see a monkey, I'll go to the zoo.
Either you've got an axe to grind or you only have to listen to top-end
speakers. I personally have had to listen to much, much worse.
scott