Thus spake "Keith Moore" <moore@cs.utk.edu> > > 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. Perhaps that's why we allocated those addresses, but that's not the most common usage anymore; IP networks not connected to the Internet have become vanishingly rare. Today, sizeable numbers -- perhaps even the majority -- of residential broadband and corporate users sit in RFC1918 space behind NATs. This is not a small mess you can wipe under the carpet and ignore. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking