Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

Sat Nov 20 20:37:11 UTC 2021

On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 12:03 PM Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
> Was it the politics of ipv6 that
> this didn't get resolved in the 90's when it was a lot more tractable?

No, in the '90s we didn't have nearly the basis for looking ahead. We
might still have invented a new way to use IP addresses that required
a block that wasn't unicast. It was politics in the 2000's and the
2010's, as it is today.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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