Re: [Int-area] Expanding Assignable IPv4 Public Address Re: 202112030945.AYC

2021-12-06 Thread Abraham Y. Chen
such later. Regards, Abe (2021-12-06 22:23 EST) Begin forwarded message: *From: *Brian E Carpenter *Subject: **Re: [Int-area] Expanding Assignable IPv4 Public Address Re: 202112030945.AYC* *Date: *December 3, 2021 at 5:27:03 PM PST *To: *int-area@ietf.org Abe mentions "more effic

Re: [Int-area] Expanding Assignable IPv4 Public Address Re: 202112030945.AYC

2021-12-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Abe mentions "more efficient and productive use of our resources" and I think we all wish for that. I think this WG should discuss the general question whether the minor wastage of IPv4 address space that this set of drafts addresses is an efficient and productive use of our resources. In othe

[Int-area] Expanding Assignable IPv4 Public Address Re: 202112030945.AYC

2021-12-03 Thread Abraham Y. Chen
Dear Colleagues: 0)    I was just made aware of a current IETF Draft discussion on reducing the 127/8 netblock allocated for Local Loopback to 127/16 in order to free up mostly unused resources in that portion of the IPv4 address pool. In studying this lead, I discovered that there are at lea