[arin-discuss] Facebook /20, Google /16

[Leland Vandervort]

I had actually asked that question last week of ARIN... got a somewhat vague response about it being a legacy network originally for "experimentation and public service attributed directly by IANA so they have no mandate to require or request its return"...

The whole 44.0.0.0/8 is in the global BGP tables, but drops into a black hole at UCSD.

Apparently there was originally an intention to link the AMPR and internet, hence the globally routed IP space, but the FCC apparently scapped that idea, so the two networks are prohibited from interconnecting directly without the use of a relay-gateway.

Leland
AA2QX / G0SZP 

:)



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On 15 Sep 2010, at 22:50, Keefe John wrote:

> While we're complaining, why does HAM radio have a full /8 that's barely
> used, if at all?
> 
> Keefe
> 
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> 
> Anyone have any idea why Facebook would have a full /20 assigned to them?
> Seems to me a fine example of the waste that we have out there with IP's.  
> 
> Google is another - they own a /16.  Ugh!!
> 
> Yeah, I know, we all complain about it, but come on!  That just doesn't make
> sense.  
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