On Jan 31, 2011, at 11:41 PM, George Bonser wrote: >> There are negligible benefits as far as I can tell from the vantage >> points of end systems to creating new private scope ipv4 regions at >> this >> late date. >> > > Here, yes. In other places, maybe there are other factors. I am not > saying I favor such a thing, just going through the exercise of thinking > through how to deal with one when/if it appears and recognizing that > such a thing could happen. > > Imagine The Repressive Republic of Slobovia wants to absolutely control > who talks to whom over that country's internet infrastructure (or, more > accurately, who doesn't talk to whom). That is a fairly easy way of > doing it. They absolutely control the entire addressing spectrum and if > desired, nothing leaks. Now that isn't to say people don't find ways > out, as they always will. > > > >
That's a really good reason NOT to provide this ability. There's no advantage to the global internet for facilitating such a thing. Owen