[AusNOG] [Fwd: [bogon-announce] IANA IPv4 allocations and bogon update 1/8 and 27/8]

[Mark Smith]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:52:05 +1100
Jeremy Visser <jeremy at visser.name> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 11:24 +1100, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> > I've head some large US carriers are using it as well.
> 
> From what I heard one, 1.0.0.0/8 is a de facto standard for
> transitioning routers between large companies in the context of joining
> networks after a merger, or other forms of inter-company peering.
> 
> 'twas what I heard once, 's all.
> 
> Probably comes from configuring 3 LANs with the entirety of their three
> RFC1918 allocations, and then wondering why they don't have much address
> space to work with. ;)
> 
> Here's hoping 5.0.0.0/8 gets allocated to disrupt Hamachi users too.

Looks like it could be the next available /8 on the list -

http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml