Excerpts from Jaren Angerbauer's message of Thu Mar 18 09:22:40 -0700 2010:
Thanks all for the on / off list responses on this. I acknowledge I'm playing in territory I'm not familiar with, and was a bad idea to jump to the conclusion that this range was private. I made that assumption originally because the entire /8 was owned by APNIC, and just figured since the registrar owned them, it must have been a private range. :S
It sounds like this range was just recently assigned -- is there any document (RFC?) or source I could look through to learn more about this, and/or provide evidence to my client?
There's a couple of relevant documents you could refer them to: IANA's IPv4 Address Space Registry ( http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ ), which will show you a listing of which registries and various entities are assigned /8 chunks of IPv4 space. There's some interesting names and historical registrations in there (including 1.0.0.0/8's recent allocation to APNIC) There's also an RFC, RFC1918 that sets aside some IPv4 space for private, ad-hoc use. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html This is also a good lay reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network Have fun, jof