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Re: New ID: Special Use IPv4 Addresses

  • From: Jonathan Heinlein
  • Date: Thu May 29 18:39:46 2008

Link change?

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

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Sean Donelan <[email protected]> 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.
>
>
>