In message <pine.lnx.4.64.1209182339200.5...@sasami.anime.net>, goe...@anime.ne t writes: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale <eyeronic.des...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> "this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world. luckily, the > >> disease does not propagate sufficiently to cross oceans." > >> > >> I'd love to hear the reasoning for this. Why would it be bad policy > >> to force companies to use the resources they are assigned or give them > >> back to the general pool? > > Many of them _ARE_ using them, just not using them directly on the public > > internet. There is nothing wrong with that. > > > > As others have said... !announced != !used. > > Is they are not using them directly on the public internet, then there's > no reason we can't use them. > > Problem solved! > > -Dan
!announced whole world != !announced. There is a simple rule. DO NOT USE ADDRESSES THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ALLOCATED. Anything else has the potential to cause operational problems. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org