[ppml] 240/4

[Tony Hain]

Andy Davidson wrote:
> ...
> If Vendor fixes hit routing software in 2007, so that class E .. or
> 240/4 .. was nothing special, then we might just have bought
> ourselves a little more time, come July 2011 (Geoff's best guess
> today when IANA's v4 'stock' runs out).

The misguided notion that this is simply a routing problem will result in a
lot of burned resources with absolutely no gain.  Even if you magically had
the ability to route that space today, what customer end systems would you
be able to stick there? 

If you write the draft now and ram it through as an RFC in less than a year,
you would be extremely lucky to find 1% of the globally deployed end systems
actually able to exist in a network that has been assigned part of that
block before 2012. 

It is worth writing it up for Greenfield deployments of closed systems that
will not need to include any of the Win9x systems that will continue to be
in use.

Tony