On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:40:20PM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Tony Tauber wrote: > > > > > > The registries (including IANA as their root) should provide just > > > that, a place to register the use of number resources to avoid collisions. > > > I'm thinking that "private" number spaces should probably be used > > > advisedly if not deprecated outright. > > > > RIR's are taking heat (or some finger pointing atleast) for allocations > > that don't appear in the public route table. There are many reasons why > > i rant, yet again. > doh! > what is this "the" public routing table? where does one > get it? in my 25 years of networking I have NEVER seen it. > i am convinced that it is a fictional as the "public" Internet. > or the "DFZ" ... they do not exist, except in the fevered > imaginations of marketing droids... and the virus is more virulent > than the H5N1 strain. Note that it affects normally sane engineers > who KNOW better. > 'public routing table' == Internet nothing more, nothing less. this is distinct from SIPRnet and some portions of NIPRnet, or other 'private' networks out there. > back in the SRInic days, there was the "connected" and "unconnected" > databases. ... to mark prefixes that were connected to the ARPAnet > and those that were in "private" networks, like CSnet, NSFnet, and > enterprise networks. Tony is right in this respect, RFC1918 space > is a feeble attempt to get around/past the lack of address space > that became apparent in IPv4 ... with IPv6, there is no real > reason to try and recreate private space (leaving aside renumbering) I don't believe there is a 'rfc1918' in v6 (yet), I agree that it doesn't seem relevant, damaging perhaps though :) > > IMHO, assigning globally unique prefixes to those who utilize IP > protocols, regardsless of whom else they choose to "see" via routing > is the right course. every other attempt to split the assignements > into "us" vs. "them" has had less than satisfactory results. agreed
