[AusNOG] IPocalypse now (?)

[Daniel Harrison]

There were at least two proposals for what to do with these.

One to use them as private addresses:
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilson-class-e-02

... and another, older one, to make them public:
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fuller-240space-02

Not sure what happened to these but they are both expired. My personal
preference would be to use them as private addresses, as the pain of
making them safe to use as public addresses is perhaps comparable to
switching to IPv6 anyway :)

-Daniel Harrison


On 1 February 2011 10:55, Steve Smith <tarkasteve at gmail.com> wrote:
> One question I've been asked is why can't they just release the
> reserved 240-254 blocks? The registry implies they're reserved for
> multicast but I can't find anything concrete on this.  In practice I
> suspect that they're hard-coded into so many IP stacks they're
> effectively useless anyway.
>
> Cheer,
> Steve
>
> On 1 February 2011 10:29, Richard Bayliss <bayliss at juniper.net> wrote:
>> APNIC got them:
>>
>> http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/delegation
>>
>> Cheers
>> Rich
>>
>> On 01/02/2011, at 10:26 AM, James Troy wrote:
>>
>> So the next question is who was allocted the last 2 blocks?
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:23 AM, James Troy <jamest at pageuppeople.com<mailto:jamest at pageuppeople.com>> wrote:
>> IPv6 Here we come :D
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jonny Martin <jonny at jonnynet.net<mailto:jonny at jonnynet.net>> wrote:
>> On Jan 31, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Jeremy Visser wrote:
>>> No, they haven't. This is one of the few authoritative links:
>>>
>>> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml>
>>>
>>> Sort by the "Status" column to see all of the unallocated blocks in one
>>> go. Then, and only then, will you know for sure.
>>
>> And would you look at that page now...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jonny.
>>
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