On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:50 PM Majdi S. Abbas <m...@latt.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:47:21PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: > > Also, who's this 'we'.. I don't live in california... I presume UC is > > getting funding from california, not virginia. (mostly) > > It seems though that 44/8 was being used in some research project at > > UC so... maybe this is just that still at play. > > less nefarious and more 'meh, why change if we don't have to?' > > [Off-NANOG] > > Chris, > > Remember that state college systems receive federal education > funding; some of your dollars are in this pot, too.
Sure,but... that space has been an internet telescope supporting numerous research folk for a decade + (probably closer to 2 decades). the amazon prefix is longer by a bit so won't really use the /8 even if ucsd keeps the /8 up. a bunch of this just sounds like grousing, which I guess is great... but none of this is particularly un-predictable. I find a bunch of the other sales far more sketchy :( I also find this prefix hilarious: 149.1.0.0/16 (not a sale, but surely available if you track down the owner .. who owns a winery) anyway, it'll be fun watching what happens with 44/8 I suppose.