On 9/18/12, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
Some people have to learn that not every address is only used on the Internet. According to the above there will be large swaths of IPv4 left at various large organizations who have /8's as "they are not announced" or as the article states it "as there is no ASN".
When IPv4 exhaustion pain reaches a sufficiently high level of pain; there is a significant chance people who will be convinced that any use of IPv4 which does not involve announcing and routing the address space on the internet is a "Non-Use" of IPv4 addresses, and that that particular point of view will prevail over the concept and convenience of being allowed to maintain unique registration for non-connected usage. And perception that those addresses are up for grabs, either for using on RFC1918 networks for NAT, or for insisting that internet registry allocations be recalled and those resources put towards use by connected networks...... If you do have such an unconnected network, it may be prudent to have a connected network as well, and announce all your space anyways (just not route the addresses)
Greets, Jeroen -- -JH