Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

[Ricky Beam]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:31:21 -0500, David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org>  
wrote:
Amusingly enough, I personally (along with others) made arguments along  
these lines back in 1995 or so when the IAB was coming out with  
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1814.txt.  Given the publication of 1814, you  
can probably guess how far those arguments fared.

You missed the "anticipates external connectivity to the Internet" part.   
Networks that never touch the internet have RFC1918 address space to use.  
(and that works 99.999% of the time.)


I haven't looked recently but I believe all the RIRs have policies that  
requires them to allocate unique numbers regardless of whether those  
addresses will be used on the Internet, as long as the requester  
documents appropriate utilization.

Per the wording of ARIN's policy, they require justification for such an  
allocation. (i.e. a damn good reason 1918 addresses aren't going to work  
for you.)

--Ricky