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Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

From: Scott Howard <scott () doc net au>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:02:18 -0700

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Mike Hale <eyeronic.design () gmail com>wrote:

So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't
publicly routable?


Because doing anything else is Harmful!  There's even an RFC that says so!

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1627 - Network 10 Considered Harmful

Ford's /8 was allocated in 1988, a full 6 years before RFC1597 (the
precursor to RFC1918) was released.

  Scott.

Current thread:

RE: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...), (continued)
- - - RE: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...) Naslund, Steve (Sep 20)
    - RE: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...) Schiller, Heather A (Sep 20)
    - Re: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...) Cutler James R (Sep 20)
    - RE: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...) Naslund, Steve (Sep 20)
    - RE: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...) Edward Lewis (Sep 20)
    - Re: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...) Owen DeLong (Sep 27)
    - Re: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...) bmanning (Sep 28)
    - Re: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...) Owen DeLong (Sep 28)
    - Re: RIRs give out unique addresses (Was: something has a /8! ...) bmanning (Sep 28)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 Mark Andrews (Sep 20)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 Scott Howard (Sep 19)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 David Conrad (Sep 19)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 Doug Barton (Sep 19)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 Joe Maimon (Sep 19)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 19)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 Joe Maimon (Sep 19)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 Leo Vegoda (Sep 19)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 Joe Maimon (Sep 19)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 Jimmy Hess (Sep 19)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 Daniel Richards (Sep 19)
    - Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 Mark Andrews (Sep 19)

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