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Re: Allocation of IP Addresses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Mar 18 10:06:59 1996

Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:58:48 -0500
To: Robert Moskowitz <rgm3@is.chrysler.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>, cook@cookreport.com,
        "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>, Jim Browning <jfbb@atmnet.net>,
        "'com-priv list'" <com-priv@psi.com>, nanog@merit.edu

At 09:09 AM 3/18/96 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

>
>BTW, there are 'rumours' floating around that China wants a couple of A's or
>so...
>

There is also a train of thought that China should simply use RFC-1918
addressing and some type of network address translation, since they control
explicit points of entry & exit to the global Internet from/to the country,
and are determined to isolate themselves from the remainder of the Internet
community anyway.

But I digress.

- paul




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