[85628] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph S D Yao)
Fri Oct 14 18:04:42 2005
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:04:16 -0400
From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov>
To: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com, nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>,
Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <434E8B23.70203@globalstar.com>
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:28:19AM -0700, Crist Clark wrote:
...
> While I do not necessarily disagree with this point of view (as I work
> for a company who uses allocated space in such a manner), others may
> argue that addresses that are assigned through the Internet Assigned
> Numbers Authority (that's Internet with the "I") are meant for Internet,
> with an "I," use. As it says at the top of their web page, "Dedicated
> to preserving the central coordinating functions of the global Internet
> for the public good." Note, "global Internet."
...
And what happens when a non-connected internet starts connecting to the
public Internet? Even if it's through a single-layered proxy?
Better to use non-conflicting IP addresses to start off with. Trying to
do this with self-issued IP addresses has caused problems more than
once. [Yah, "this is what RFC 1918 is for", but what if two RFC 1918
networks connect?]
--
Joe Yao
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