EricLKlein wrote: I actuall wrote this, but Eric didn't quote correctly:
> A company like IBM is big enough to have their own global > infrastructure and can also get a TLA as they are an ISP > for theirselves most probably. Same goes for companies like > Microsoft, Apple or non-computer related: Shell for instance. Then Eric wrote this: > True, but they will want to keep the private network hardware on their > backbone seperate from the public traffic. I suppose that > they could take seveal /48's some for internal use and some > for customer use. They are their own customer, though usually big companies have an internal venture which handles the complete network and where the other business units are customers of that venture. And those venture's know how a firewall work. Quite easy: filter at the edge or as near as possible to the prefixes as possible. I really do not see why this would mean that there even ever would be a need for site-locals. > Call me old fassion but it seems a bit much to have that > microwave with a registered global address. Again: Firewall or don't route it along. Btw... RFC1918 have been leaked onto the global internet too. There was even one stupid (now bankrupt :) company which mailed a certain technical mailinglist at a certain IX and said they where going to announce&use 172.16/16. They claimed it was a stupid joke played onto a newbie. But if somebody actually would, your 'sitelocal' microwave would be reachable. Or do you firewall? :) Greets, Jeroen PS: check RFC1855 or for example a page like: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html Makes it much clearer who said exactly what. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
