Consequently it has been proposed several times already to close down the Last-Resort registries. I think it is now time to finally take such a step with a timeframe of end Q3/95 or at the end of the year.
Daniel,
This is all going severely to fast for my taste. Essentially the decision is not to close down the last-resort registries, but not to allocate unique address space anymore except for Internet connected organisations. This is a decision of a magnitude that needs substantially more support than it currently has.
Some comments:
- this would seem to imply that RFC1597 is now *compulsory* for private internets (certainly for those where any member also has a public Internet connection).
There are perfectly good reasons why an organisation might want unique (but not necessarily globably routable) address space, RFC1597 doesn't provide this. Simon