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Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4
From: Ca By <cb.list6 () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:17:53 -0700
On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Ricky Beam <jfbeam () gmail com> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:38:32 -0400, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:You may be confused. ARIN never possessed class E; it's held in reserve by IETF. As much as I enjoy a good ARIN bashing, they and John Curran are quite faultless here.Quote-unquote, as in they didn't even bother *even proposing* to use Class E space. The reasons were numerous, btw. (hardcoded restrictions, erroneous classification as multicast, not worth the effort, etc.)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilson-class-e-02 Proposed and denied. Please stop this line and spend your efforts on ipv6
Given how slowly IPv6 is deploying, this choice may prove to have beenshortsighted.I doubt it. As you said, there is A LOT of crap out there that would have to be updated. Pulling a number out of the air, I'd guess *most* in-use devices would NEVER see such an update. Even from companies that do still exist. (Sadly, those are also devices that aren't going to see IPv6, either.)
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- Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4 William Herrin (Jun 17)
- Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4 Ca By (Jun 17)
- Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4 Mark Andrews (Jun 17)
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- Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4 Ca By (Jun 17)
- Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4 Ricky Beam (Jun 17)
- Re: Is it safe to use 240.0.0.0/4 William Herrin (Jun 17)
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