At the request of student, Chris Walter, I have posted the IETF recommended PRIVATE IP ADDRESS SCHEMES (I've copied these directly from RFC 1597)
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private networks:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255