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Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Thu, 27 March 2003 00:56 UTC

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Ultimately, as I wrote with others some nine years ago, some practices 
should not be codified.  With IPv4 at least there was a plausible 
argument for network 10.  I didn't like it, nor did I agree with it, but 
it was plausible.  The same cannot be said for v6.

Incidentally, Sun & HP's use of default network numbers didn't really 
cause any great consternation or motivation for RFC 1597, so far as I 
could tell.  Were that the case we wouldn't have needed either a /16 or 
a /8.

Eliot

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