[100091] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 240/4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Oct 16 13:58:08 2007
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:56:45 -0600
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Alain Durand <alain_durand@cable.comcast.com>
CC: Vince Fuller <vaf@cisco.com>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <C33A5570.3D2C%alain_durand@cable.comcast.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Randy pointed out rightly, this is not only your network that needs
> upgrading, this is all the networks who communicate with you that needs
> upgrading.
>
> So, classifying 240/4 as public use is unrealistic now and will remain
> unrealistic in the near future.
agree
> Classifying it as private use should come with the health warning "use this
> at your own risk, this stuff can blow up your network". In other words, this
> is for experimental use only.
disagree. as you point out, this is analogous to deploying ipv6; i do
not think you would want us to put an "experimental" warning on that. if
you certify your kit to handle it, then it will work in production.
randy
