Re: Last Call: Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies for Internet

Dorian Kim <dorian@cic.net> Thu, 15 February 1996 11:27 UTC

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On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> As I recall, there is one case that breaks this.  Where your internal
> address space gets assigned to someone else on the big-I.  Then the NAT
> could have interesting routing problems.

One place private address space (RFC1597 (has that been updated 
recently?) comes in very handy. I know of a customer who has done this + 
NAT, and is very happy with result.

-dorian