[ale] [OT] Voicepulse question

[James Baldwin]

On 7 Dec 2004, at 19:01, Geoffrey wrote:
> Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Geoffrey wrote:
>>> Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
>>>> My ISP (Biltmore Communications) hands out dark addresses.
>>>
>>> ??? dark addressess ???
>> I've always thought that IP addresses behind a NAT were called 'dark' 
>> ... since you cant see them from the outside.
>> But a very quick search on google does not seem to indicate any such 
>> nomenclature.
>> Will have to think about where I learnt this :)
>
> Private ip is the terminology I've always seen.

RFC 1918 space is the most common reference to such space among network 
engineers I've seen. "Private ip" space is somewhat ambiguous and is 
sometimes confused with RIR allocations to private industries. "Dark 
addresses" could lead one to believe they are assigning currently 
unallocated netblocks to customers, which is the first thought that 
crossed my mind when I heard it.