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Re: New ID: Special Use IPv4 Addresses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Heinlein)
Thu May 29 18:39:52 2008

Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 18:39:34 -0400
From: "Jonathan Heinlein" <jonathanheinlein@gmail.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0805281505110.2731@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Link change?

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iana-rfc3330bis-02.txt

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iana-rfc3330bis-01.txt
>
> Other than a formatting error in the header ("IPv4 Multicast Guidelines")
> instead of ("Special Use IPv4 Addresses"), the only significant change
> appears to be removing the "Reserved" status of the old Classfull boundary
> networks.  The former boundary networks are now subject to allocation like
> any other unicast IPv4 address space.
>
> Host, Router vendors and Network Operators should have already been testing
> their equipment for proper handling (i.e. not doing anything different) of
> these network addresses.  So this ID should just be a minor IANA
> administrative cleanup.
>
>
>

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