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Re: A simple question

2003-04-19 14:37:37
Thus spake "Keith Moore" <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu>
Nothing of the kind.   1918 addresses were created because there
was demonstrated demand for stable local use only addressing.

1918 addresses were created because there was a need for isolated
networks to be able to get address space, and having them pick space
at random was believed to be problematic.

Perhaps that's why we allocated those addresses, but that's not the most
common usage anymore; IP networks not connected to the Internet have become
vanishingly rare.

Today, sizeable numbers -- perhaps even the majority -- of residential
broadband and corporate users sit in RFC1918 space behind NATs.  This is not
a small mess you can wipe under the carpet and ignore.

S

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CCIE #3723         "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
K5SSS        dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking




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