Hi, On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:23:43AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
That would mean that IP addresses that were once guaranteed to be globally unique regardless of whether they were used on the Internet or private IP networks would no longer be guaranteed to be globally unique.
not really. that requirement was a very likely enforcable contract. wanna find out? break it.
Actually this is an interesting side track, so I'll bite - "enforcable contract between *which* two parties"? Especially for "legacy" assignments, done by InterNIC to a company that has been sold and bought 5 times in the meantime... For PA assignments being done under the current RIR system, I agree with you. For PI assignments in the RIPE region (dunno about other regions), it's less clear, because no contracts exist between RIPE NCC and the address holder... Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 110584 SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279