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Daniel Karrenberg
daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net
Thu Oct 18 09:14:04 CEST 2007
[From another list. Note lack of cross-posting.] I suggest to the chair(s) to ask this question at the upcoming WG meeting. Daniel ----- Forwarded message from Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net> ----- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:12:03 +0200 From: Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au> Cc: "Church, Charles" <cchurc05 at harris.com>, nanog at merit.edu Subject: Re: 240/4 On 18.10 10:48, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > Asking the whole internet to support 240/4 is going to tie up > > valuable resources that would be far better off working on IPv6. Keep > > in mind that it's not just software patches. Software vendors don't do > > stuff for free. I doubt ISPs are going to pay huge amounts of money to > > support a peer crazy enough to try this. And until tested, there is no > > guarantee that hardware based routing platforms (your PFCs, etc) can > > route Class E addresses as if they're unicast. > > So how about pulling a reachability test and announcing a few /19's from > 240/4, stick a website on it and get people to report back? If there was serious community interest in this, I am sure the RIPE NCC could be persuaded to test this as part of the well-oiled de-bogonising machinery. this immediately provides automated measurements as well. It may take a little longer than sual to set up as we may want to ask all our de-bogonising peers whether they are OK with this just to be sure. Daniel PS: Personally I am not convinced that this space will ever become useful for global routing. But we won't know for sure until we have tried it. ----- End forwarded message -----
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