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From: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, vaf@cisco.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] ipv4: enable use of 240/4 address space
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:12:24 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080112.141224.06844600.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080111.174857.258424243.davem@davemloft.net>

In article <20080111.174857.258424243.davem@davemloft.net> (at Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:48:57 -0800 (PST)), David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> says:

> From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:41:20 +0900 (JST)
> 
> > 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.
> 
> This is so incredibly incorrect.
> 
> There is consensus on making network stacks able to use this
> address space.  And that is all that the patch does.

No, we did never make consensus on it.

> The consensus is only missing on whether to make the address
> space public or private.
> 
> This is also clearly spelled out in the draft.
> 
> It is important to get as large of a head start on this as
> possible because of how long it takes to deploy something
> like this.

Okay, though I am afraid this space will not be used widely,
we should be ready for it.

I'll make some more comments on the patch itself from
another point view.

--yoshfuji


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-12  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-08  1:10 [PATCH 001/001] ipv4: enable use of 240/4 address space Vince Fuller
2008-01-11  6:33 ` David Miller
2008-01-11 11:17 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-11 12:41   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-01-12  1:48     ` David Miller
2008-01-12  5:12       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 [this message]
2008-01-11 17:29   ` Vince Fuller
2008-01-12  1:49     ` David Miller
2008-01-12 11:23       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-12  5:47 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-01-17 23:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-18  0:28   ` Vince Fuller
2008-01-18  1:13 ` [PATCH] IPv4: Enable " Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-18  1:26   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-01-18  1:52     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-18  2:13       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-01-18  2:15         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-01-19 13:44         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-19 15:30           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2008-01-21 11:19             ` David Miller

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