Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:42:52 +0300 (EEST)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>> > Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:17:23 -0700
> > From: Steve Conte <conte@iana.org>
> > Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> >
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following two (2)
> > IPv4 /8 blocks to APNIC:
> >
> > 58/8
> > 59/8
> >
> > For a full list of IANA IPv4 allocations please see:
> > <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space>\.
>
> While it's certainly nice to have these posted and I really do
> appreciate it, is there any chance that they might be signed so we can
> authenticate them some day?Are you asking for IANA to provide the IANA web site using HTTPS to
mitigate HTTP hijacking, DNS spoofing, or whatever?
This would be one way. I'd prefer a PGP signed message, but I know that
the people who use S/MIME would probably object.
It would be too easy to get many people to pull an entry from a filter
with a forged message and have the space used "improperly".