[ncc-services-wg] [routing-wg] Re: New Draft Document: De-boganising New AddressBlocks

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:23:48PM +0100, Jørgen Hovland wrote:
> > There are actually some people here doing exactly that: Sending packets
> > with an unroutable source-ip - with totally "legit" reasons.
>
> Could you be somewhat more specific about these "legit" reasons?

Well..
Generally any device that would like to send
messages without the need of a reply, or not in need of a reply through
the same transport method/layer or ip (kind of asynchronous
communication).
I could name some, but I think what you are looking for is this:
Routers with a non-routed ip-address by choice or by nature. IX-prefix
for instance. IPv6 applies here specially.

Besides from that there are software taking advantage of it like our
own little project AP2P, truly anonymous P2P.


Joergen Hovland ENK