Feasibility of using Class E space for public unicast (was re: 44/8)

Sat Jul 27 19:50:54 UTC 2019

In article <23868.39953.398906.559231 at gargle.gargle.HOWL> you write:
>Not particularly interested in arguing for using Class E space but
>this "not compatible" reasoning would seem to have applied to IPv6 in
>the early 2000s (whatever, pick an earlier date when little supported
>IPv6) just as well, pretty much.

Right.  A point that's been made about a hundred times already is that the effort
to add class E to the IPv4 space is the same as the effort to support IPv6, so
why waste time with class E?

R's,
John