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To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Subject: Re: 127/8 continued 
Cc: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen),
	Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>, Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>,
	"'Andrew Reilly'" <areilly@bigpond.net.au>,
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:43:40 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:49:25 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200109242043.f8OKheR16906@ptavv.es.net> "Kevin Oberman" writes:
: > Are IANA/IETF/Internet standards EVER applicable to what goes on inside
: > our computers?   Or just to the data crossing our Internet interfaces?
: > (Not rhetorical - I'm wondering.)
: 
: No. This is explicitly stated in an early RFC (although I have no idea
: which one any more). If it does not leave a system, no standard RFC is
: relevant. That is one reason that the handling of 127/8 is limited to
: the statement that it should not appear as a destination of any packet
: leaving the system. 

Well, to be pedantic, there are several RFCs that describe host
progamming APIs.  Those are relevant to what happens inside the host
:-)

Warner

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