[100151] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 240/4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alain Durand)
Thu Oct 18 17:10:25 2007
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:53:58 -0600
From: Alain Durand <alain_durand@cable.comcast.com>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, <michael.dillon@bt.com>
CC: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200710182024.l9IKOPMF026380@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 10/18/07 2:24 PM, "Joe Greco" <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
> Actually, though, I have a better solution. Let's ask the IETF to revise
> an RFC, and define the first octet of an IPv4 address as being from 0-
> 65535. That's asking the IETF to revise an RFC, too, such request being
> just as practical as what you suggest, and yet I'd say that the overall
> solution is just as likely to work well as IPv4-240+. It'd probably
> also solve the transition to IPv6 issue; we wouldn't need to.
Or simply ask IANA to open up 256/5. After all, this is just an entry in a
table, should be easy to do, especially if it is done on Apr 1st. ;-)
- Alain.
