Re: New ID: Special Use IPv4 Addresses

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

The header was corrected an hour or so after my original message, and
a revised internet-draft (02) was published.



On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jonathan Heinlein wrote:
> Link change?
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iana-rfc3330bis-02.txt
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
>
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iana-rfc3330bis-01.txt
> >
> > Other than a formatting error in the header ("IPv4 Multicast Guidelines")
> > instead of ("Special Use IPv4 Addresses"), the only significant change
> > appears to be removing the "Reserved" status of the old Classfull boundary
> > networks.  The former boundary networks are now subject to allocation like
> > any other unicast IPv4 address space.
> >
> > Host, Router vendors and Network Operators should have already been testing
> > their equipment for proper handling (i.e. not doing anything different) of
> > these network addresses.  So this ID should just be a minor IANA
> > administrative cleanup.