Re: I-D ACTION:draft-wilson-class-e-00.txt

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On Aug 8, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Douglas Otis wrote:
On Aug 8, 2007, at 3:02 AM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

What happened to draft-hain-1918bis-01, which tried to get more address space for private Internets, but expired back in 2005?

I see the point about regarding 240.0.0.0/4 as "tainted space" and therefore being less than useful on the public Internet.....

RFC 3330 listed as not currently part of the public Internet:

0.0.0.0/8	"this" 		 16,777,216
10.0.0.0/8	"private"	 16,777,216
127.0.0.0/8	"loopback"	 16,777,216
169.254.0.0/16	"link-local"	     65,536
172.16.0.0/12	"private"	  1,048,576
192.0.2.0/24	"test-net"	        256
192.168.0.0/16	"private"	     65,536
192.18.0.0/15	"benchmark"	    131,072
224.0.0.0/4	"multicast"	268,435,456

This is simply wrong. Multicast is certainly part of the public Internet, it is certainly used on the public Internet and (I might point out) people (including yours truly) make money from it.

You are right. Indeed Multicast is part of the public Internet. The concern has been with respect to availability of general purpose public IP addresses, where multicast would be excluded as would private IP addresses. This should have read "not currently part of the 'general use' public Internet."

-Doug


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