On Nov 29, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Christian Huitema <huit...@microsoft.com> wrote:

>> I did share what I was smoking - it's called 'reality' :).
> 
> Which reality? I think Randy is much more realistic!

+1

> 
> You are telling us that you want a /10 of private address space set aside 
> because you cannot use the current allocation of private address space in RFC 
> 1918. You tell us that the effect you want to achieve cannot be attained if 
> the address that you use are also used by customer networks. But then, there 
> is no mechanism whatsoever that would prevent customer networks from using 
> the new /10 as soon as it would be allocated. Sure, you may put text in a RFC 
> somewhere, but that is not a mechanism. Ergo, if we were to make that 
> allocation, it will become unusable for your stated purpose in a very short 
> time. 
> 
> I think that's not a very good idea. I would rather not see that allocation 
> being made.
> 

That is my view as well.  I think this is a bad idea for the reasons stated. 
 
Bob


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