[434] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: tcp/ip and the Eastern Block (sic)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Mon Mar 25 08:38:14 1991
To: Brian Lloyd <brian@napa.telebit.COM>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 08:16:10 EST
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@cise.nsf.gov>
If folks build a world-wide IP network with Trailblazers, it won't be
anything particularly new. After all, over 20,000 IP net numbers have
been distributed by the NIC, but there are only about 5000 nets in the
Internet - so there are already a lot of private, unconnected IP nets
out there.
Of course, if the folks who build the private net also pick their own net
numbers, AND IF someone later is foolish enough to make a link from that net
to the Internet, we shall have a period of bogon chaos to suffer through.
Just such a situation was averted about a year ago: a Friendly Foreign Power
decided to asign its own IP net numbers, but fortunately was dissuaded when
informed of the consequences of later making a connection to the Internet.
-s
