Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

Wed Feb 4 01:29:36 UTC 2009

I agree... I'd love to know where they got that from... who even wrote it?

...Skeeve

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Palmer [mailto:mpalmer at hezmatt.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, 4 February 2009 12:26 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:57:36AM +1100, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> OK.
> 
> Following myself up, and referencing a link someone else gave me in
regards
> to IPv6
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
> 
> Has the entry:
> 
> Private use of other reserved addresses
> 
> Several other address ranges, in addition to the official private ranges,
> are reserved for other or future uses, including 1.0.0.0/8 and
2.0.0.0/8[1].
> In recent years, large companies have begun to use this address space
> internally.

[citation required]

- Matt