On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:29:18PM +0100, Per Heldal wrote: ...
... which is why I specifically said "no intention to ever connect to, or communicates with nodes on, the global network". In which case overlaps in adressblocks are irrelevant, as are any mention of NAT and firewalls as there is no connection (direct or indirect) between the networks. ...
(1) Intentions change. As does ownership and therefore required connectivity. (2) Unique name spaces (from IP address or ASN spaces) are also used to verify that there is no leakage between two internets which one desires to keep separate. From a technical point of view, that may be considered a waste of the name spaces that could be used redundantly on both networks; from a security point of view ... it's one way to get the job done. I do think that hundreds of ASNs fall in these categories, I can't guess whether thousands do. -- Joe Yao ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.