[156610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Thu Sep 20 17:00:42 2012
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:01:53 GMT."
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:59:49 +1000
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <9B9685A4-CD22-41E9-957A-23103D2C8F33@corp.arin.net>, John Curran wr
ites:
> 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."
Adding "or globally announced" may stop some of this in the future.
> FYI,
> /John
>
> John Curran
> President and CEO
> ARIN
>
>
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