New ID: Special Use IPv4 Addresses

Thu May 29 22:39:34 UTC 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 <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

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> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iana-rfc3330bis-01.txt
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> 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.
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