Comments on: NoCat team proposes handing out the 10.x network for a “Virtual Public Network” http://www.sifry.com/alerts/2002/05/nocat-team-proposes-handing-out-the-10-x-network-for-a-virtual-public-network/ Dave Sifry's Musings Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:38:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jay R. Ashworth http://www.sifry.com/alerts/2002/05/nocat-team-proposes-handing-out-the-10-x-network-for-a-virtual-public-network/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Jay R. Ashworth Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:46:05 +0000 http://www.sifry.org/alerts/?p=36#comment-16 The NoCat people aren't going to be handing out *any* address space. They don't own any. Giving out net-10 addresses is worthless; much to all of the backbone won't pass packets with those addresses... so they'll have to NAT the users anyway. There *are* 70-100 Class-A networks which could be allocated for this purpose -- and there's even precedences: Net 44 was allocated for Amateur Packet Radio some years ago.. although I think this predated ARIN. But if the top 5 names in wireless network were convinced that this was the best solution, and wrote a paper on it, it might be that ARIN could be convinced to allocate space for it. But, given the problems that Ricochet had getting penetration, and the fact that the nationwide CDPD infrastructure only got a handful of class-B's, I don't think it's gonna be *easy*... The NoCat people aren’t going to be handing out *any* address space. They don’t own any.
Giving out net-10 addresses is worthless; much to all of the backbone won’t pass packets with those addresses… so they’ll have to NAT the users anyway.
There *are* 70-100 Class-A networks which could be allocated for this purpose — and there’s even precedences: Net 44 was allocated for Amateur Packet Radio some years ago.. although I think this predated ARIN.
But if the top 5 names in wireless network were convinced that this was the best solution, and wrote a paper on it, it might be that ARIN could be convinced to allocate space for it.
But, given the problems that Ricochet had getting penetration, and the fact that the nationwide CDPD infrastructure only got a handful of class-B’s, I don’t think it’s gonna be *easy*…

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