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

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Scott Howard <scott () doc net au> wrote:
> 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

Actually, the reference you probably want is http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1814.txt - Unique Numbers are Good.  That RFC 
caused a bit of consternation with the RIRs at the time as some of us (at least) were trying to suggest that given IPv4 
was a limited (albeit not scarce at that time) resource, if you didn't plan on connecting to the Internet, RFC 1597 
space was to be encouraged.

Regards,
-drc