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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IAB and "private" numbering
> what is this "the" public routing table? where does one > get it? in my 25 years of networking I have NEVER seen it. > i am convinced that it is a fictional as the "public" Internet. > or the "DFZ" ... they do not exist, except in the fevered > imaginations of marketing droids... and the virus is more virulent > than the H5N1 strain. Note that it affects normally sane engineers > who KNOW better. I think that many, many people make the assumption that a service like RouteViews or RIS holds "the" global routing table because they peer widely in all regions to collect the data. > IMHO, assigning globally unique prefixes to those who utilize IP > protocols, regardsless of whom else they choose to "see" via routing > is the right course. every other attempt to split the assignements > into "us" vs. "them" has had less than satisfactory results. I think that many people make the assumption that IP addresses can only be used on the Internet because they learned that IP stands for Internet Protocol. --Michael Dillon
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