linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 001/001] ipv4: enable use of 240/4 address space

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Message-Id: <20080111.214120.129309556.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:41:20 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	andi@...stfloor.org
Cc:	vaf@...co.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] ipv4: enable use of 240/4 address space

In article <p73bq7smx1t.fsf@...gen.suse.de> (at Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:17:02 +0100), Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> says:

> Vince Fuller <vaf@...co.com> writes:
> 
> > from Vince Fuller <vaf@....net>
> >
> > This set of diffs modify the 2.6.20 kernel to enable use of the 240/4
> > (aka "class-E") address space as consistent with the Internet Draft
> > draft-fuller-240space-00.txt.
> 
> Wouldn't it be wise to at least wait for it becoming an RFC first? 

I do think so, too.

There is no positive consesus on this draft
at the intarea meeting in Vancouver, right?

We cannot / should not enable that space until we have reached
a consensus on it.

--yoshfuji
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