[100092] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 240/4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alain Durand)
Tue Oct 16 14:21:02 2007
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:08:25 -0600
From: Alain Durand <alain_durand@cable.comcast.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
CC: Vince Fuller <vaf@cisco.com>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4714FB5D.9050907@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 10/16/07 11:56 AM, "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> 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.
I'm trying to avoid setting the expectation that 240/4 is just a simple
extension to 10/8 and thus people should use it *today* when they run out of
space in RFC1918. Thus the health warning.
- Alain.
