[156539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed Sep 19 14:18:31 2012
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACnPsNXmhJ2znRbTbJiGjtC=ebfH-Jmoqn97krA3x0rG8nr7sw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:17:12 -0700
To: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
Cc: NANOG List <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au> wrote:
> 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?
>>=20
> Because doing anything else is Harmful! There's even an RFC that says =
so!
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1627 - Network 10 Considered Harmful
Actually, the reference you probably want is =
http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1814.txt - Unique Numbers are Good. That =
RFC caused a bit of consternation with the RIRs at the time as some of =
us (at least) were trying to suggest that given IPv4 was a limited =
(albeit not scarce at that time) resource, if you didn't plan on =
connecting to the Internet, RFC 1597 space was to be encouraged.
Regards,
-drc
