> On Feb 13, 2021, at 03:58 , Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]> > wrote: > > In message <[email protected]>, > Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is literally no way to know whether legacy resources are used or not. >> ... >> However, unannounced legacy resources are mostly in an unknown state of >> utilization and it is essentially impossible to determine whether or not >> they are actually in use. > > I only wish that I had the first clue about what you are going on about > here Owen. > > If a tree falls in the forest, and if it is not routed on the public > Internet, then why should I or anybody else give a damn about what > you do in the privacy of your own intranet? Your private intranet > and what you do on it is of no concern whatsoever to the actual > Internet community. Nor does the administration of publicly routable > IP addresses by the various RIRs have any bearing on what you elect > to do on your own private intranet.
Because private network A with address set A talks to private network B with address set B who also connects to the public internet using address set B. If someone on the internet starts using address set A, then B now has a problem communicating with the public internet user of address set A and the private network A. Just because addresses aren’t routed visibly on the public internet does not mean that they are not used in a manner or application where it is important for them to remain unique. RIRs register addresses for uniqueness, not merely for internet routing. Owen _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
