On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 01:45:04PM -1000, scott wrote: > On 11/17/2021 1:29 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > This seems like a really bad idea to me; am I really the only one who > > noticed? > > > > https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-127-00.html > > https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions > > ------------------ > > Fixing the odd nooks and crannies still mildly broken in IPv4, by: > > * Making class-e (240/4), 0/8, 127/8, 224/4 more usable > * Adding 419 million new IPs to the world > * Fixing zeroth networking > <https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions/blob/master/ZEROTH.md> > * Improving interoperability with multiple protocols and tunnelling > technologies > * Supplying tested patches and tools that address these problems > > ------------------ > > Some of these are hardcoded in ASICs, I believe. Change that! ;)
Probably easier to change the ASICs than it'll be to get those "tested patches" they've apparently written deployed to the millions of Windows XP boxes still out there. - Matt