IP address blocks for out-of-band inter-provider links

Mon Aug 6 11:46:23 UTC 2001

At 06:03 AM 8/6/01, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

>  Well, it sure looks like a "virtual" exchange to me.
>

Also looks like every private interconnect in the business-to-business 
world, where people have for years been asking for micro-allocations so 
that companies, who generally all use RFC 1918 addresses internally, can 
have SOME address space that's guaranteed uniquely numbered.

I don't see a good reason why a confederation of ISPs/NSPs/etc. doing what 
is essentially a private, B2B network should be afforded any different 
treatment in this area than other businesses.

Don't get me wrong, I think such allocations SHOULD be available from 
ARIN/RIPE/APNIC. I think it's a good thing that the networking community 
might finally understand why.
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