On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Ricky Beam <jfb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:38:32 -0400, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > >> You may be confused. ARIN never possessed class E; it's held in >> reserve by IETF. As much as I enjoy a good ARIN bashing, they and John >> Curran are quite faultless here. >> > > Quote-unquote, as in they didn't even bother *even proposing* to use Class > E space. The reasons were numerous, btw. (hardcoded restrictions, erroneous > classification as multicast, not worth the effort, etc.)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilson-class-e-02 Proposed and denied. Please stop this line and spend your efforts on ipv6 > Given how slowly IPv6 is deploying, this choice may prove to have been >> shortsighted. >> > > I doubt it. As you said, there is A LOT of crap out there that would have > to be updated. Pulling a number out of the air, I'd guess *most* in-use > devices would NEVER see such an update. Even from companies that do still > exist. (Sadly, those are also devices that aren't going to see IPv6, > either.) >