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Re: was bogon filters, now "Brief Segue on 1918"

  • From: Owen DeLong
  • Date: Wed Aug 06 12:08:13 2008

On Aug 6, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:

Darden, Patrick S. wrote:
Most private networks start at the bottom and work up: 192.168.0.X++,
10.0.0.X++, etc. This makes
any internetworking (ptp, vpn, etc.) ridiculously difficult. I've seen
a lot of hack jobs
using NAT to get around this. Ugly.

Well, you can always do what one of the companies I work with does: allocate from 42.0.0.0/8 for networks that might need to interoperate with 1918 space and hope that it is "forever" before we run so low on IPv4 space that 42.0.0.0/8 needs to be taken out of reserved status.

How many more weeks is "forever" now? 

Personally, I'd like to see such numbers put on a list for ICANN to give
priority to in their next RIR distribution.

Owen