New ID: Special Use IPv4 Addresses

Thu May 29 23:24:40 UTC 2008

The header was corrected an hour or so after my original message, and
a revised internet-draft (02) was published.

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jonathan Heinlein wrote:
> 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:
>
>>
>> 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.