Hi Randy!

for the record, verio also filters B on /16. we do so because that is what the registries told us were allocation boundaries. if registries intend to change these policies, it would be kind to warn and discuss.

I think we should try keeping separate things separate. From my point of view, the information about the allocation boundaries as provided by the registries is one thing. Users (ISP customers), announcing subsets of address-space they got assigned somehow, maybe from a legacy class B block, is another thing. If they do so without checking the constraints of the routing system, on the technical side, or the contracts with their ISP(s), on the administrative side, then this is outside the responsibility of any IP-allocation- or Routing-Registry, I think. But I'm sure *you* are perfectly aware of that :-) Cheers, Wilfried. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wilfried Woeber : e-mail: Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at Computer Center - ACOnet : Tel: +43 1 4277 - 140 33 Vienna University : Fax: +43 1 4277 - 9 140 Universitaetsstrasse 7 : RIPE-DB (&NIC) Handle: WW144 A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe : PGP public key ID 0xF0ACB369 --------------------------------------------------------------------------