[100104] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 240/4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pekka Savola)
Wed Oct 17 02:11:02 2007
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:09:48 +0300 (EEST)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200710162025.l9GKPFc9003266@parsley.amaranth.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Daniel Senie wrote:
> Yes, actually, it's specifically reserved, and it's in a block above
> multicast.
First, my primary assumption here is that it's never reasonable to
expect that 240/4 would work as a publically routed address space (cf.
Randy's mail on imposing demands on others). If there is agreement so
far, and the addresses would be used in non-public contexts or NATted
along the way, no experiment coordination is required.
You seem to be under the illusion that the IETF or IANA controls the
Internet or private internets (e.g., experiments, private use,
contexts not visible to the public Internet).
The operators who want to do something private with this space don't
need the IETF or IANA approval to do so. So they should just go ahead
and do it. If they can manage to get it to work, and live to tell
about it, maybe we can consider that sufficient proof that we can
start thinking about reclassification.
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
