> Thus, in the perfect/hypothetical world where everyone followed RFC1918's > suggestions as well as it's requirements
Of course, being pedantic I feel the need to correct my own mistake here. The 'requirement' of not using private IP space for public interfaces is actually that of IANA, who reserved those addresses. RFC1918 merely documents best current practice. Thus, the reason it can be (and often is) ignored at the discrection of the network operators. --K
