[137063] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Last of ipv4 /8's allocated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Tue Feb 8 20:18:57 2011
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:17:44 -0500
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <C0709A42-CA99-4104-90CF-6E61EC226D57@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/8/2011 7:58 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> It doesn't have to be a public network to need globally unique addresses.
>
> There is NO policy requirement to use NAT or RFC-1918 for private networks. Just a suggestion that folks be considerate of the community where they can.
>
> I'll bet most of them would have no problem under current policy. They only need to show need for ~8,000,000 hosts, including subnet overhead.
>
> If you wanted to, your medical company could have easily justified at least a /17 and probably a /16 under current policy.
>
> There's really nothing to be gained from attempting to go after what might be reclaimed from the legacy block holders. EIther
> they will return their addresses or contribute them to the market or they won't. Attempts at forced reclamation will only make
> that situation worse and are unlikely to result in any actual reclamation of addresses before the conclusion of protracted
> and ugly law suits that would be very expensive. Such lawsuits are unlikely to reach conclusion before the need for
> massive quantities of IPv4 address space is in the past.
>
> Owen
>
Point taken.
--C