[156537] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Wed Sep 19 14:05:16 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAN3um4zmT2L8uMMwQTDq1coxjXOyvgdQfVtMPGwG2tTmf87frQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:02:18 -0700
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com>wrote:
> So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't
> publicly routable?
>
Because doing anything else is Harmful! There's even an RFC that says so!
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1627 - Network 10 Considered Harmful
Ford's /8 was allocated in 1988, a full 6 years before RFC1597 (the
precursor to RFC1918) was released.
Scott.
