On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Jeremy wrote:
Has there been any discussion about allocating the Class E blocks? If this doesn't count as "future use" what does? (Yes, I realize this doesn't *fix* the problem here)
I think it has been discussed at various levels, but would likely have been dismissed for one or more of the following reasons: 1. A lot of people filter packets and/or prefixes 224/3 or 240/4 out of habit, right, wrong, or otherwise, so space from 240/4 is likely to have lots of reachability problems.
2. The effort expended by people to solve reachability problems from space they'd get out of 240/4 would be better put toward moving to v6.
3. Busting out 16 more /8s only delays the IPv4 endgame by about a year. jms
