Re: WKBI #586, Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

["John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

> The only effort involved on the IETF's jurisdiction was to stop squatting on 
> 240/4 and perhaps maybe some other small pieces of IPv4 that could possibly 
> be better used elsewhere by others who may choose to do so.

The IETF is not the Network Police, and all IETF standards are entirely 
voluntary.

Nothing is keeping you from persuading people to change their software to 
treat class E addresses as routable other than the detail that the idea is 
silly.

R's,
John