-----Original Message----- From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert@space.net] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 2:32 PM To: Potapov Vladislav Cc: address-policy-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [address-policy-wg] RE: Private address space in IPv4 and IPv6 [was something irrelevantly titled]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:24:42PM +0400, poty@iiat.ru wrote:

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This has always been my understanding on the principles that govern the RIRs' operation - "provide unique numbers to the people that need unique numbers". Be it IPv4, IPv6 or ASes.

No, because it has (providing the "numbers") the scope - the Internet, If I want to create my own network, not connected to the scope, I don't need to use any of rules of disconnected network. I'm surprised that you are not understanding and differentiating that.

To phrase this a bit more blunt: you're completely off-base. I was wording this in a polite way would have permitted you to step back without losing face.

Before accusing people in this list that they have no clue or no understanding how this thing works, how the RIR system works, and so on - maybe you should actually try to do a bit of reading on how long some of these people have been actively working as part of the RIPE addressing community.

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Maybe, following your thoughts, I could get the IP number for my

You lose your arguments? And just braving your "involvements". Ha-Ha! I'm with RIPE from 1997, and yearly attending RIPE's meeting, so I can't be called "not working as part of the RIPE addressing community". But it IS not argument and I'll never be so puffed up to use it as an argument. Vladislav Potapov Ru.iiat pet?

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Just to be more "connected" to the network?

If your pet has an IP connection, and you can make a good point that it's very likely that your pet will be connected to other pets *using IP networks*, the point could be argued that this is a valid usage of IP resources.

If your pet is not using IP networking technology, it doesn't need IP addresses.

(This was my last e-mail on this topic, and I would kindly ask the other mailing list participants to refrain from answering this troll until he shows a bit more interesting in understanding reality).

Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 128645

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