fix the edge (was Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC)

Fri Jan 22 05:02:37 UTC 2010

Anton Kapela wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:
> 
>> I thought there was some other group that had been squatting in 1/8,
>> something about radio and peer to peer...but not AnoNet (at least that name
>> was totally unfamiliar)...but this was all I could find with a quick google.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnoNet#Scaling
> 
> oh, the irony. good thing privacy costs too much for the majority of
> internet users.
> 
> on a serious note, who cares? Resolution to the 1/8 allocation "mess"
> seems on par with freeing up IP stacks from excluding 240/4, but by
> the time any of this is resolved, perhaps residential users on att
> dsl/etc might just have working IP6CP, or will have switched to
> comcast by then.

It's way lower than 240/4 one doesn't have to patch the kernel on a
billion devices.

> -Tk
> 