[address-policy-wg] Use of the Reserved IP Pool

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:
> It's a bit like the Svalbard  repository of most of the world's seeds: they're stored in a very safe place just in case there's a disaster and those crop seeds are *really* needed.

Having visited the Seed Vault (on my own, in permanent darkness, with
a loaded WWII rifle which still had a swastika stamped into it, and an
ice bear which roared on the slope behind me after an hour of me
standing still and taking pictures in half a snow-storm; but that is
another story), I have to disagree.

The one is carved into bedrock, has double blast doors and two
independent armoured storage chambers, is designed to withstand a
nuclear explosion, be above the waterline even if the poles and
glaciers melt down completely, and will remain cold enough for
millennia to come even without active cooling and facing global
warming.
The other is just a place to store seeds.


Richard