[address-policy-wg] RE: Private address space in IPv4 and IPv6 [was something irrelevantly titled]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:24:42PM +0400, poty at iiat.ru wrote:
> > This has always been my understanding on the principles that govern
> > the RIRs' operation - "provide unique numbers to the people that need
> > unique numbers".  Be it IPv4, IPv6 or ASes.
>
> No, because it has (providing the "numbers") the scope - the Internet,
> If I want to create my own network, not connected to the scope, I don't
> need to use any of rules of disconnected network. I'm surprised that you
> are not understanding and differentiating that.

To phrase this a bit more blunt: you're completely off-base.  I was 
wording this in a polite way would have permitted you to step back without
losing face.

Before accusing people in this list that they have no clue or no 
understanding how this thing works, how the RIR system works, and so 
on - maybe you should actually try to do a bit of reading on how long
some of these people have been actively working as part of the RIPE
addressing community.


> Maybe, following your thoughts, I could get the IP number for my pet?
> Just to be more "connected" to the network? 

If your pet has an IP connection, and you can make a good point that
it's very likely that your pet will be connected to other pets *using
IP networks*, the point could be argued that this is a valid usage of
IP resources.

If your pet is not using IP networking technology, it doesn't need
IP addresses.


(This was my last e-mail on this topic, and I would kindly ask the other 
mailing list participants to refrain from answering this troll until 
he shows a bit more interesting in understanding reality).

Gert Doering
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