> | > No, it isn't. It is a cleaned up replacement for 1918 addresses. > | which by itself is reason enough to kill it. > > Nothing of the kind. 1918 addresses were created because there was > demonstrated demand for stable local use only addressing. 1918 addresses were created because there was a need for isolated networks to be able to get address space, and having them pick space at random was believed to be problematic. > Nothing > has changed in the Internet to cause that demand to go away. what has changed is that we now have experience with RFC 1918, and we know now that it is far more of a mess than was anticipated.