[ppml] Policy Proposal: IPv4 Soft Landing

Antonio Querubin tony at lava.net
Thu May 17 12:43:38 EDT 2007


On Thu, 17 May 2007, Dan.Thorson at seagate.com wrote:

> exceedingly
>> few oddballs using 225-238/8 could migrate to the remaining two /8s with
>> minimal hassle.
>
> There is danger in the assumption that there is a "(miniscule) multicast
> world".  Whereas this is likely true on the Big-I Internet, multicast is
> widely used in the corporate manufacturing world.  Who is prepared to pay

Concur on this.  There're quite a few small multicast islands out there. 
Requiring those of us who are using that space for global connectivity to 
squeeze down to just 224/8 doesn't leave much wiggle room.

Antonio Querubin
whois:  AQ7-ARIN



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