> On Jul 22, 2019, at 12:15 , Naslund, Steve <snasl...@medline.com> wrote:
>
> I think the Class E block has been covered before. There were two reasons to
> not re-allocate it.
>
> 1. A lot of existing code base does not know how to handle those
> addresses and may refuse to route them or will otherwise mishandle them.
> 2. It was decided that squeezing every bit of space out of the v4
> allocations only served to delay the desired v6 deployment.
Close, but there is a subtle error…
2. It was decided that the effort to modify each and every IP
stack in order to facilitate use of this relatively small block (16 /8s being
evaluated against a global
run rate at the time of roughly 2.5 /8s per month, mostly to
RIPE and APNIC) vs. putting that same effort into modifying each and every IP
stack to support
IPv6 was an equation of very small benefit for slightly smaller
cost. (Less than 8 additional months of IPv4 free pool vs. hopefully making
IPv6 deployable
before IPv4 ran out).
Owen
>
> This is my recollection and might be flawed.
>
> Steven Naslund
> Chicago IL
>
> >Whatever happened to the entire class E block? I know it's reserved for
> >future use, but sounds like that future is now given that we've exhausted
> >all existing >allocations.
