[128742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Wise)
Sun Aug 15 12:48:48 2010
From: Michael J Wise <mjwise@kapu.net>
In-Reply-To: <87vd7bg8em.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:47:35 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 15, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> What's the current consensus on exempting private network space from
> source address validation?
BCP38-land MUST *never* see RFC1918-space traffic. Ever.
Unless you're using a border router as a NAT device, of course....
The only way your question makes sense is if someone who should know =
better is intending to announce some chunk of RFC1918-space via BGP.
Please tell us that is not your intent.
Aloha,
Michael.
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