Re: [IANAxfer@apnic] Key elements of the transition of IANA stewardship
On 12-Sep-14 01:21, David Conrad wrote:
> As I’ve tried to explain to Richard, the assumption of a need to
> be “allowed” by IANA or the RIRs is a top-down mindset and
> Internet numbers don’t work that way. IP addresses are just
> numbers. There is nothing special about the numbers allocated by
> the RIR system+ICANN other than the fact that they are allocated by
> the RIR system+ICANN. The only thing stopping anyone from reusing
> any of the numbers allocated by the RIR system+ICANN is the fact
> that the world’s ISPs tend to want the Internet to work and as a
> result, prefer unique address assignments. In that sense, it is
> the ISPs that would “allow” the use of those addresses.
Both of the contentful, if somewhat derisive, answers sort of skirted
the questions by telling me anyone can use any numbers they want. I
am asking about whether they can register numbers that are within the
current set of number that IANA + the RIRs call the Internet (using
legacy v4 and not yet assigned v6 allocations) . Not a separate
private net of some sort. That is well known.
I find the answer that if you prove you need them then IANA will give
the v6 addresses interesting.
But thank you.
avri