Subject: Re: IP's for point-to-point and loopbacks

From: "Carlos M. Martinez" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:25:59 -0300

Hi!

On 27 Oct 2017, at 16:54, Paul Wouters wrote:

> However, there is a lot of unused multicast and reserved space left to 
> do assignments from. I’m not sure why we haven’t started nibbling 
> on those yet, other then wanting to promote ipv6?

It’s been said around that those ranges would present problems if used 
on the public Internet. Namely, there is zero guarantee that they will 
be widely routable.

Now, if we were to carve blocks for p2p and loopbacks from them _under 
the assumption that they are_ a kind “extended/special use” private 
space, maybe it’s not such a bad idea.