[156513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Wed Sep 19 02:57:36 2012
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1209182339200.5518@sasami.anime.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:56:16 -0700
To: goemon@anime.net
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 18, 2012, at 11:40 PM, goemon@anime.net wrote:
> Is they are not using them directly on the public internet, then =
there's no reason we can't use them.
>=20
> Problem solved!
Dude, seriously. Just because they aren't in *YOUR* routing table =
doesn't mean that they aren't in hundreds of other routing tables.
Look, more than half of Milnet isn't publicly advertised on the =
Internet. This doesn't mean that it's okay to advertise Milnet routes to =
locations which might be closer to you (bgp-wise) than the actual owners =
of the addresses. You are totally missing the point of unique =
assignment.
This is like claiming that we should reuse the phone numbers of people =
who block their number when they call you. Yes, really, it makes just as =
much sense.
--=20
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet =
projects.
