<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Morizot Timothy S <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Timothy.S.Morizot@irs.gov" target="_blank">Timothy.S.Morizot@irs.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Not really. The only traffic that would have gone to them would have been traffic not covered by a more specific route.</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Even so... the /12 blocks or other covering aggregats are specifically not for ARIN's internal use --- ARIN is entrusted with stewardship to manage allocation, and ARIN has no authority to co-opt or use the blocks for its own purposes or to be writing any LOA for announcements covering aggregates for these blocks which are registered to other organizations, </div>
<div><br></div><div>And which improper announcements can break the default route for BGP speakers carrying partial tables (filtered by length) and which may cause other unwanted and damaging affects.</div><div><br></div>
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--<br></div><div>-JH </div></div></div></div>