Re: DoD IP Space

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Jan 20, 2021, at 07:11 , Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net> wrote:
>
> On 1/20/21 9:58 AM, j k wrote:
> > My question becomes, what level of risk are these companies taking on by using the DoD ranges on their internal 
> > networks? And have they quantified the costs of this outage against moving to IPv6?
>
> Honestly I can't think of much unless maybe they're a defense contractor that would potentially end up with DoD 
> ranges (non-isolated/classified networks) in their view of the global routing table.  Appropriately treating it like 
> "my networks" and/or RFC1918 in your routing policies (not exporting it, not accepting routes for it, etc.) would be 
> required to properly ensure network stability of course.

Do you think this still holds true if DoD were to (e.g.) sell that space to $CLOUD_PROVIDER or $ISP or $SUPPLIER or…?

I don’t have any knowledge of any events surrounding this space currently, but I do know that press releases and 
congress have discussed that possibility, so it cannot be ruled out.

Owen