Greetings,

We are trying to develop an architecture that is based around the premise that there is a special purpose local HTTPS server with a well known address.  We intend to reserve the port number with IANA and define a well known local address in each of the following address spaces: 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0, as well as in some private IPv6 address ranges.

When a device comes up, as part of its startup logic it tries all these well known addresses one by one, until there is a hit.  If there is no hit, the process terminates.  However, if there is a hit, the device will make a special HTTPS request to this server, which in turn will deliver some management bootstrapping information to the device.

One of my distinguished colleagues thinks that this constitutes an IP address abuse.  Is that so?  I do not seem to find any reference to this on the IANA Abuse FAQ site (http://www.iana.org/abuse/faq.html).  

Thanks in anticipation.  I really appreciate your patience with me on this issue.

Regards,

Kong Posh Bhat

Standards Research Lab

Samsung Telecommunications America

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