[156582] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Sep 20 10:03:35 2012
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:01:53 +0000
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Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sep 19, 2012, at 5:01 AM, Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org> wrote:
>> So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't
>> publicly routable?
>=20
> Because the RIRs aren't in the business of handing out publicly routable =
address space. They're in the business of handing out globally unique addr=
ess space - *one* of the reasons for which may be connection to the "public=
Internet", whatever that is at any given point in time and space.
>=20
> RIPE are really good about making the distinction and using the latter ph=
rase rather than the former. I'm not familiar enough with the correspondin=
g ARIN documents to comment on the language used there.
It's very clear in the ARIN region as well. From=20
the ARIN Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM),
<https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#four11> -
"4.1. General Principles=20
4.1.1. Routability
Provider independent (portable) addresses issued directly from ARIN or=
other Regional Registries are not guaranteed to be globally routable."
FYI,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
