[106592] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: was bogon filters, now "Brief Segue on 1918"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Aug 6 12:08:11 2008
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: matthew@eeph.com
In-Reply-To: <4899B8C0.4040606@eeph.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:06:22 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Aug 6, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> Darden, Patrick S. wrote:
>> Most private networks start at the bottom and work up: 192.168.0.X++,
>> 10.0.0.X++, etc. This makes
>> any internetworking (ptp, vpn, etc.) ridiculously difficult. I've
>> seen
>> a lot of hack jobs
>> using NAT to get around this. Ugly.
>
> Well, you can always do what one of the companies I work with does:
> allocate from 42.0.0.0/8 for networks that might need to
> interoperate with 1918 space and hope that it is "forever" before we
> run so low on IPv4 space that 42.0.0.0/8 needs to be taken out of
> reserved status.
>
> How many more weeks is "forever" now?
Personally, I'd like to see such numbers put on a list for ICANN to give
priority to in their next RIR distribution.
Owen
