[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-127: Shared Transition Space for IPv4 Address Extension

[George Bonser]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen at delong.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:50 PM
> To: George Bonser
> Cc: George, Wes E [NTK]; matthew at matthew.at; Jack Bates; ARIN-PPML
List
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-127: Shared Transition Space for
> IPv4 Address Extension
> 
> 
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 8:17 PM, George Bonser wrote:
> 
> >> [WES] This has also been discussed in the past. There are too many
> >> devices that reject Class E space as invalid. Stupid on the part of
> > the
> >> vendors in question, but that ship sailed long ago.
> >
> > How much of that could be fixed with a code update?
> >
> >
> Across the entirety of residential gateways? In 9 months? Probably
less
> than 0.05%.

Yeah, I guess that is what happens when nobody does anything until the
very last minute.  I guess it just isn't a problem until it's a problem.