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Given the seniority of the author and committer in the networking world, I assume that they're operating under the knowledge that IANA's reservation is being re
by azernik 7y ago
Given the seniority of the author and committer in the networking world, I assume that they're operating under the knowledge that IANA's reservation is being reconsidered.
- dtaht 7y agoWe have had many talks at many levels over the years. This is an attempt to break the logjam of finger pointing that ensued. We expect wide adoption of this and other ipv4 related patches over the next few years across the open source stacks... and then a standards dialog can take place. John Gilmore (creator of the unicast extensions project) was the co-inventor of bootp in 85, which is what made using 0.0.0.0/8 feasible, then. The fact that it's been feasible since and no movement in the standards orgs to fix it, has kind of been a record long wait from bug fix to deployment in both our cases.