Dear sirs,

I'm the tech-c contact for the it.atlanet LIR. We have planned to use
pubblic IP address in order to number the point-to-point links of our
customers (i.e. leased line or xDSL customers).
We think that public addresses is better because it eliminates the isseus
related with overlapping of private addresses that some customers could use
on their LANs attached to the CPEs (the Customer Premises Equipments linked
to our network via point-to-point links).
Those public addresses should be unique just on each fixed access router of
our backbone network. So they can be re-used in different PoPs.
Of course each customer link will need 4 or 2 (if we use the RFC3021) IP
addresses.

Since I've noticed that the address space 169.254.0.0/16 is reserved by the
IETF (RFC 3330) for the "Link Local" purpose, I was wondering which is the
exactly purpose of such addresses and if could be feasible to use them to
number our customer links.

Anybody of you have ever used or seen the above mentioned address space
being used ?
What do you think if we use the 169.254.0.0/16 address space for our
customer point-to-point links ?

Thanks in advance for your help !
Diego Gosmar
DG2617-RIPE



>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "RIPE NCC Staff" <lir-help@ripe.net>
> To: "Diego Gosmar" <Diego.Gosmar@atlanet.it>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 5:32 PM
> Subject: Re: NCC#2003066218 IP addresses for customer WANs
>
> Dear Diego,
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:49:43 +0200, Diego Gosmar wrote:
> * Dear  Pierre,
> * I've noticed today that it exists the following address space:
> * 169.254.0.0/16 reserved by the IETF (RFC 3330) for the "Link Local"
> * purpose.
> * It's a lot of addresses.
> * What do you think if we use the 169.254.0.0/16 address space for our
> * customer point-to-point links ?
> *
> * Thanks in advance for your help
> *
> * Diego
>
>   This sounds like a possibility. However, I couldn't find much
> documentation about precedents.
>
>   You could ask on the Routing Working Group mailing list. There are
> plenty of knowledgeable people there who might be able to help you:
>
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/routing/index.html
>
>   Kind regards.
>
> Pierre Baume - Hostmaster - RIPE NCC.
>
>