[137154] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Wed Feb 9 17:09:44 2011
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:08:49 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
In-Reply-To: <8C26A4FDAE599041A13EB499117D3C286B3692E7@ex-mb-1.corp.atlasnetworks.us>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/9/11 1:42 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote:
>> Most IPv4 space is unused anyway, but it's not being reclaimed much
>> despite that. (How many IP addresses does the US federal government
>> need? Few people would think ~ 10 /8s. Especially since many of
>> them aren't even lit up.)
>
> What do you mean, lit up? You mean they're not in the routing tables
> that you get from your carriers? I'd argue that's no indication of
> whether they're in use or not.
Especially given that they're know to be in use. e.g. it's not a secret,
they just don't appear in your internet.
>
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