[86652] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IAB and "private" numbering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Sun Nov 13 00:15:55 2005
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:15:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <20051113035828.GA13591@vacation.karoshi.com>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:12:13AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> >
> > 'public routing table' == Internet
>
> as seen from which ASN? or are they all the same?
> if you don't have a more specific, or a covering prefix
> and are not deluding yourself (aka Sprint circa 1994
> w/ the great 192.0.0.0/3 lie) does NOT mean you have
> a full routing table... it just means you have a covering
> prefix or more specific prefix from each of your peers...
> <voila, the DFZ> does not mean you have all routes tho.
yes, I give :)
>
> > nothing more, nothing less. this is distinct from SIPRnet and some
> > portions of NIPRnet, or other 'private' networks out there.
>
> as alluded to earlier, "private" networks overtook the
> "Internet" before... it could happen again. :)
>
I'd venture to guess that they have already... it's tough to measure
though.
