On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 7:51 PM Abraham Y. Chen <aychen@avinta.com> wrote:
1) " ... should be ... ": Instead of "hand wave", this is a diplomatic expression to challenge the software engineers' knowledge of the networking program code for the current case. Ever since we started our study, we were quite puzzled by why the 240/4 netblock was regarded so special? Why no one could tell us what led to its current status, and even after IPv4 was set to transition to IPv6?
https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/iana-ipv4-specia... Which leads to RFC 1112 section 4, the disposition of which last changed in 1989. You are now informed about its current status along with when and how it got to be that way. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin bill@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/