Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space

[Adam Armstrong <lists () memetic org>]

On 15/08/2010 18:02, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Valdis Kletnieks:
>
> > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:46:49 +0200, Florian Weimer said:
> >
> > > > And that connection that's trying to use PMTU got established across the
> > > > commodity internet, how, exactly? ;)
> > >
> > > ICMP "fragmentation needed, but DF set" messages carry the a addresses
> > > of intermediate routers which generate them (potentially in response
> > > to MTU drops) as source addresses, not the IP addresses of the peers
> > > in a connection.
> >
> > If any long-haul carriers are originating ICMP packets for other people's
> > consumption from 1918 addresses rather than addresses in their address space,
> > it's time to name-n-shame so the rest of us can vote with our feet and
> > checkbooks.  There's no excuse for that in this day and age.
>
> What does "originating" mean?  Creating the packets?  Or forwarding
> them?

My bus originates in the town of bananaville, but before it finally 
originates at mangoburgh, it originates through 5 other towns.

Wow, that would be a confusing language to speak. ;)

The origin is the beginning point of something, where it is created.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/origin

I'll let you off as you're German and German doesn't use any words with 
related etymology :>

Though really, if you know BGP you should understand the term 'origin'.

adam.