Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking to buy IPv4 addresses from class C swamp

Tue Apr 29 22:28:38 UTC 2003

No, I am not proposing a new Arin addressing scheme...

   This was a standard I am quoting from memory, way back...

  I too had asked for Unique space that was wasn't going to be
routed, and recieved a "Sorry, Arin only allocates addresses
that are going to be used on the -=Internet=-." response....

   I didn't invent the perspective, just "parroted" it.

Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Thus spake "Richard Irving" <rirving at onecall.net>
> 
>>>There are companies that connect to thousands of other companies
>>>(see the financial markets) that require unique addressing between
>>>companies with non-colliding address ranges.  10.x.x.x doesn't
>>>quite cut it.
>>
>>    This is not an acceptable excuse to burn PI space.
>>
>>There are plenty of other Iana-L available... try using an obscure one.
> 
> 
> If RIRs want to claim their allocations aren't guaranteed to be routable,
> that must mean they are willing to make allocations for non-routed use.
> Furthermore, there is nothing in the ARIN allocation policies requiring a
> member to actually announce all of his allocations on the public Internet.
> 
> You're welcome to propose new RIR policies, but the reality today is that
> globally unique addresses can be and are allocated for private use.

> 
> S
> 
> Stephen Sprunk         "God does not play dice."  --Albert Einstein
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