[arin-ppml] [EXT] Re: Open Petition for ARIN-prop-266: BGP Hijacking is an ARIN Policy Violation

[Dave Lawrence]

Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
> If people want to use 240.0.0.0/4 -internally- as private RFC1918 address
> space, who's preventing them from doing so?  As long as there are no route
> leaks for any of this to the outside world, I don't see the issue/problem.

A very good, brief summary:

http://packetlife.net/blog/2010/oct/14/ipv4-exhaustion-what-about-class-e-addresses/

Basically it has been suggested before but ended up torpedoed by the
reality of huge chunks of the existing deployed base blocking it hard.