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<p>Well perhaps they should have not assumed anything, as Future Use
could mean anything, including Unicast. The wrong assumption taken
costed over 6% of the total IPv4 space.<br>
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<p>Fernando<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/07/2019 13:13, Eduardo Cota via
LACNOG wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:alpine.DEB.2.21.1907251305300.29569@ampere.fing.edu.uy">
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On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Alejandro Acosta wrote: <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On 7/24/19 4:16 PM, Fernando Frediani
wrote: <br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> <br>
On this basis I wanted also to understand also who was the
'clever' <br>
idea to deny forwarding to this packets in firmware to
something <br>
tagged as "Future Use", therefore that had the expectation to
be used <br>
one day in the future ? <br>
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Hello, I have followed all the thread waiting for someone to
answer the <br>
question above :-) <br>
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Of course I am not authoritative on this, but if I was designing
any software/OS/firmware, why should I assume that "Future Use"
will be "unicast"? We already have unicast, multicast, some
limited forms of broadcast... Which forwarding rules should I use?
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If "Future use" had been changed to "unicast" circa 1990-2000
(when address depletion was predicted and band-aids defined),
nowadays we could be using them. Changing their status today seems
useless. <br>
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Yours, <br>
Eduardo.<br>
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