Each /8 is very valuable, worth between one and two Billion U.S. dollars. It is important to have a broad base of "Trustees" that help to manage all of cyberspace. That avoids having companies with monopoly control over a space or the Registry for the space. The 11-bits of extended addressing (22 total) that can fit in the IPv4 header, allow all address spaces to be expanded. Existing "owners" do not have rights to that expanded space. Eight Trustees plus the existing owner form a 9-person "Board" to manage each space. Here is one example. 17*8=136 http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space 017/8 Apple Computer Inc. Jul 92 http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt 0:136 PICTURES 0:137 BBS 0:138 PLACE 0:139 KIDS 0:140 SPACE 0:141 APPRAISERS 0:142 CHANGE 0:143 CREATED ========================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel N. Rasmussen" <daniel.rasmussen@wcom.com> To: "'Peter B. Juul'" <peter.juul@uni-c.dk>; <lir-wg@ripe.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:24 AM Subject: RE: [lir-wg] Reserved addresses Hi Peter,
Could someone explain to me what the nets marked "reserved" in for example http://kmserv.com/testbed/ip-space.txt are expected to be used for? Special stuff or RIR address space?
Well, looking at the above link and comparing it to the most recent one (http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space), I would say the latter. Eg. 068-079/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81 now 068/8 ARIN Jun 01 069/8 ARIN Aug 02 070-079/8 IANA - Reserved Sep 81
Peter B. Juul, Uni·C (PBJ255-RIPE)
Regards, Daniel Rasmussen dk.uunet