On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 09:43:26AM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote:
On 11/19/21 8:27 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
these measurements would be great if there could be a full research- style paper, with methodology artifacts, and reproducible results. otherwise it disappears in the gossip stream of mailimg lists.
Maybe an experimental rfc making it a rfc 1918-like subnet and implementing it on openwrt or something like that to see what happens. how many ip cameras and the like roll over and die? same for class E addresses too, I suppose. The question with anything that asks about legacy is how long the long tail actually is.
Mike, not that have any position on whether this is a good idea or not
I can tell you it's observable out there and if i use my home network to follow default i can tell it is working through those devices at least. I agree with Randy it would be good if someone did this, it shouldn't be too hard with ripe atlas and a provider deciding to announce something like 240.2.3.0/24 to see if it can be reached. That's at least a decent measurement and report, but the client side OS will still be a variable that is difficult to digest. Not sure how many people are running very old IP stacks. This is another hard to measure problem. - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.