[anti-abuse-wg] Question regarding IP address abuse

Greetings,

 

We are trying to develop an architecture that is based around the
premise that there is a special purpose local HTTPS server with a well
known address.  We intend to reserve the port number with IANA and
define a well known local address in each of the following address
spaces: 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0, as well as in some private
IPv6 address ranges.

 

When a device comes up, as part of its startup logic it tries all these
well known addresses one by one, until there is a hit.  If there is no
hit, the process terminates.  However, if there is a hit, the device
will make a special HTTPS request to this server, which in turn will
deliver some management bootstrapping information to the device.

 

One of my distinguished colleagues thinks that this constitutes an IP
address abuse.  Is that so?  I do not seem to find any reference to this
on the IANA Abuse FAQ site (http://www.iana.org/abuse/faq.html).   

 

Thanks in anticipation.  I really appreciate your patience with me on
this issue.

 

Regards,

Kong Posh Bhat

Standards Research Lab

Samsung Telecommunications America

Ph:  972-761-7450 (Desk); 214-766-1743 (Mobile)

Fax: 972-761-7631

 

 

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