On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 01:10:40AM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Allocations on non-nibble boundaries are possible of course.. it could
> just mean about 8 different almost identical delegations in the worst
> case.
> 
> Or are you referring to "Class-less reverse delegation" (RFC2317)?  I'm 
> not sure if that'd help all that much.

My understanding was that 2317 was only needed on sub /24 allocations,
though of course it could be used to allocate a /17 "efficiently".

I do not think 2317 should be propagated forward into ip6.arpa.  The 
need is not present.

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