[156491] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Sep 18 23:28:11 2012
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:27:38 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbWySXm2o4=DAAJoC+RbU3K40wb4Rc+MBZ8tN8PaG+cGCA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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> When IPv4 exhaustion pain reaches a sufficiently high level of pain;
> there is a significant chance people who will be convinced that any
> use of IPv4 which does not involve announcing and routing the address
> space on the internet is a "Non-Use" of IPv4 addresses,
>
> and that that particular point of view will prevail over the concept
> and convenience of being allowed to maintain unique registration for
> non-connected usage.
>
> And perception that those addresses are up for grabs, either for using
> on RFC1918 networks for NAT, or for insisting that internet registry
> allocations be recalled and those resources put towards use by
> connected networks......
>
> If you do have such an unconnected network, it may be prudent to have
> a connected network as well, and announce all your space anyways (just
> not route the addresses)
this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world. luckily, the
disease does not propagate sufficiently to cross oceans.
randy
