[ppml] 240/4

[David Williamson]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:12:18PM +0000, bmanning at karoshi.com wrote:
> 	on the presumption that we (the IP using community) really have
> no intention of abandoning IPv4 anytime real soon, I think a method to
> place previously unusable space into the useable pool is a good thing,
> even it if takes years for some folks to recast their ASICs.  
> 	its unrealistic to expect retrofit of all existant systems to
> support such a change... the cost/benefit is not there.  but for new
> systems, sure.

I agree.  It's not like IPv4 will suddenly cease to be useful when we
exhaust the existing pool of addresses.  Even if it takes until 2020 to
make 240/4 useful, it would still be useful.

-David