On 10/16/07, Justin M. Streiner <streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote:
The effort someone would spend figuring out if 204/4 is reachable and not-pain-inducing in their infrastructure is better spent figuring out how to make IPv6 work within their sphere of responsibilities. I agree. The current rate at which blocks of IPv4 space are being allocated to the RIRs suggests that releasing a chunk from, say, 240/5 or 248/5 for consumption gets you about 1 year, tops.
A year is good. My recommendation would be to adamantly refuse to let the RIRs assign it for public space and insist that it's for experimental use only, even though these days the place for research is IPv6 or its interaction with IPv4, and maybe even put out some interesting but not actually useful piece of researchware such as RFC1149bis (homeland security emergency warning notification via location-agile mobile distribution of audio recordings using peer-to-peer avian carriers.) Then when we actually do run out of IPv4 space and major players start complaining that they're Just Not Ready for IPv6, because you know that's going to happen, have the RFC author grudgingly agree to release the space and retarget the research, giving the carriers and other players one more year to get serious. -- ---- Thanks; Bill Note that this isn't my regular email account - It's still experimental so far. And Google probably logs and indexes everything you send it.