[146429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Arguing against using public IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lewis)
Sun Nov 13 10:36:56 2011
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:36:43 -0500
From: Jason Lewis <jlewis@packetnexus.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I don't want to start a flame war, but this article seems flawed to
me. It seems an IP is an IP.
http://www.redtigersecurity.com/security-briefings/2011/9/16/scada-vendors-use-public-routable-ip-addresses-by-default.html
I think I could announce private IP space, so doesn't that make this
argument invalid? I've always looked at private IP space as more of a
resource and management choice and not a security feature.
