YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

Leo Vegoda leo.vegoda at icann.org
Fri Mar 12 21:44:54 UTC 2010


On 12 Mar 2010, at 1:34, Kevin Loch wrote:
> Axel Morawietz wrote:
>> Am 12.03.2010 17:03, schrieb Nathan:
>>> [...] Its
>>> amazing how prolific 1.x traffic is.
>> 
>> one reason might also be, that at least T-Mobile Germany uses 1.2.3.*
>> for their proxies that deliver the content to mobile phones.
>> And I'm not sure what they are doing when they are going to receive this
>> route from external. ;)
> 
> If 1.0.0.0/8 has been widely used as de-facto rfc1918 for many years, 
> perhaps it is time to update rfc1918 to reflect this?

Marla and I have drafted a document examining the issues associated with designating additional private address space:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-azinger-additional-private-ipv4-space-issues-03

Please let us know if you have suggestions for improvements to the document.

Leo



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