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

In article [ref] (at Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:48:57 -0800 (PST)), David Miller [off-list ref] says:

From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <redacted>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:41:20 +0900 (JST)

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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