[156591] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cutler James R)
Thu Sep 20 11:36:25 2012
From: Cutler James R <james.cutler@consultant.com>
In-Reply-To: <2A76E400AC84B845AAC35AA19F8E7A5D0C6FF97D@MUNEXBE1.medline.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:35:32 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 20, 2012, at 10:56 AM, "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund@medline.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Wouldn't you say that there is a very real expectation that
> when you request address space through ARIN or RIPE that it would be
> routable?=20
I certainly would not say that. =20
I would say that I get addresses from the RIRs to avoid address =
collisions with other network operators using the same approach. And, =
please note this well, address collisions affect more than Layer three =
routing. See all the previous mentions of application gateways.
James R. Cutler
james.cutler@consultant.com
