[34961] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rfc 1918?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Feb 22 17:44:22 2001
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:33:53 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>
Cc: North America Network Operators Group Mailing List <nanog@merit.edu>
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> > > There are good reasons to want to get those packets (traceroutes from
> > > people who have numbered their networks in rfc1918 networks,
>
> No John, there are exactly zero reasons, good or otherwise, for allowing
> any traffic with RFC-1918 source addresses to traverse any part of the
> public Internet. Period! :-)
You are being religious, and I shall not descend into this sort of
discussion with you. It is simply non productive nor professional.
I disagree, and believe that other reasonable people do so as well,
and there is therefore argument over this issue. People should not
assert canonicity upon it. End of story.
--jhawk
