On: Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1

[charonn0]

Allocated, not assigned.

[MattSteelblade → charonn0]

APNIC used that terminology in their analysis paper of 1.0.0.0/8, "1.0.0.0/8 has been assigned by IANA to APNIC on the 19th January 2010" [1]. To do this analysis, wouldn't they have had to advertise a route back in 2010?

[1] http://www.potaroo.net/studies/1slash8/1slash8.html

[Joeri → charonn0]

What is the practical difference?

[MattSteelblade → Joeri]

From RIPE, "An allocation is the block of IP addresses that is reserved by the RIPE NCC for your use now and in the future. An assignment is a block of IP addresses from your allocation that is used on an active network."

https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management...

[brutal_chaos → Joeri]

I was curious as well and found this:

https://serverfault.com/questions/191497/ip-addresses-assign...

[seanp2k2 → Joeri]

It didn’t do the bad thing until after it was assigned, so no one cared when it was allocated.