schoen/unicast-extensions
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The IPv4 unicast extensions project - Making class-e (240/4), 0/8, 127/8, 225/8-232/8 generally usable - adding 419 million new IPs to the world, and fixing various other slightly broken pieces of the IPv4 world
4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2020-10-12 · latest 2024-05-27
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The current proposal is to reduce loopback subnet size from /8 to /16 - https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions/blob/master/127... I think that it's the most problematic proposal from all these – unlike 240/4 etc every ip stack on…
comment by obscurette · 2024-05-27 · in Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4 -
…holds regrets on the 127/8 proposal as it has caused the project to receive a lot of negative focus https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions/issues/16 and they have since let that draft proposal expire which is why your link is to an…
comment by zamadatix · 2022-09-11 · in IPv4 Turf War -
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The IPv4 Cleanup Projectstory by pabs3 · 2021-11-19 · 153 comments
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I'm working on a project with John Gilmore to make those special addresses usable. https://github.com/schoen/unicast-extensions (note that most of the content in this repository was written by Dave Taht, who was running this project…
comment by schoen · 2020-10-12 · in Sale of amateur radio AMPRnet TCP/IP addresses raised $108M