[40280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP address blocks for out-of-band inter-provider links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Mon Aug 6 07:48:29 2001
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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 07:46:23 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
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At 06:03 AM 8/6/01, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> Well, it sure looks like a "virtual" exchange to me.
>
Also looks like every private interconnect in the business-to-business
world, where people have for years been asking for micro-allocations so
that companies, who generally all use RFC 1918 addresses internally, can
have SOME address space that's guaranteed uniquely numbered.
I don't see a good reason why a confederation of ISPs/NSPs/etc. doing what
is essentially a private, B2B network should be afforded any different
treatment in this area than other businesses.
Don't get me wrong, I think such allocations SHOULD be available from
ARIN/RIPE/APNIC. I think it's a good thing that the networking community
might finally understand why.
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