[58758] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IANA reserved Address Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Fri May 30 19:23:53 2003
From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:23:19 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20030530183944.G54195@kod.inch.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> On Fri, 30 May 2003 Brennan_Murphy@NAI.com wrote:
> RFC1918 is a set number of IP addresses. If you are working on a private
> network lab that will be on the internet eventually or have parts on the
> internet and exceeds the total number of IPV4 addressing set aside in
> RFC1918, and IPV6 private addressing is not an option, what can you do? (I
> know it's a stretch, but I think it asks specifically what Brennan wants
> to know and what I'm curious about now)
You request the number if IP addresses you actually need from IANA (or the
relevant registry). See RFC2050, which says:
In order for the Internet to scale using existing technologies, use
of regional registry services should be limited to the assignment of
IP addresses for organizations meeting one or more of the following
conditions:
a) the organization has no intention of connecting to
the Internet-either now or in the future-but it still
requires a globally unique IP address. The organization
should consider using reserved addresses from RFC1918.
If it is determined this is not possible, they can be
issued unique (if not Internet routable) IP addresses.
DS
