[156814] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are NAT'ed networks part of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Tauber)
Thu Sep 27 11:41:24 2012
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:41:07 -0400
From: Tony Tauber <ttauber@1-4-5.net>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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> "Are networks behind NAT/ALG or that use RFC 1918 or the v6 equivalent
> address space,
> part of the 'Internet' or are they in networks where access to
> addresses/service ports
> must be explicitly granted?"
>
RFC4084 (Terminology for Describing Internet
Connectivity)<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4084>,
IMHO, does a decent job of trying to enumerate/unpack these kinds of
questions.
I'm sure it's not uncontroversial, but may provide some common vocabulary.
Tony
