IAB and "private" numbering

Mark Smith random at 72616e646f6d20323030342d30342d31360a.nosense.org
Mon Nov 14 21:08:29 UTC 2005


On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:36:00 +0000
Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com wrote:

> 
> > I'd like to see some acknowledgement that there are legitimate uses of
> > number resources that don't include "the public Internet".
> 

RFC1627, "Network 10 Considered Harmful (Some Practices Shouldn't be
Codified)" and RFC3879, "Deprecating Site Local Addresses" provide some
good examples of where duplicate or overlapping address spaces cause
problems, which is what happens when different organisations use RFC1918
addresses, even if they aren't connected to the Internet.

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