Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

[Gaurav Kansal]

> On 18-Nov-2021, at 09:10, Jerry Cloe <je...@jtcloe.net> wrote:
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> Subject: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public
> To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org <mailto:nanog@nanog.org>>; 
> This seems like a really bad idea to me; am I really the only one who noticed?
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> https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-127-00.html 
> <https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-127-00.html>
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> I can think of about a dozen /8's that would be better to use. (Hint, they 
> all have DOD in the name.) They haven't been in routing tables for decades 
> and there wouldn't be hardly any technical issues (like there would be with 
> 127/8). The only drawback is I've seen a lot of organizations treat them like 
> rfc1918 space.
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This seems to be much better idea then 127/8 or 240/8