I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dnsind-classless-inaddr-04.txt

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	Title		: Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation
	Author(s)	: G. de Groot, P. Vixie, H. Eidnes
	Filename	: draft-ietf-dnsind-classless-inaddr-04.txt
	Pages		: 9
	Date		: 08-Jan-98
	
   This document describes a way to do IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation on non-
   octet boundaries for address spaces covering fewer than 256
   addresses.  The proposed method should thus remove one of the
   objections to subnet on non-octet boundaries but perhaps more
   significantly, make it possible to assign IP address space in smaller
   chunks than 24-bit prefixes, without losing the ability to delegate
   authority for the corresponding IN-ADDR.ARPA mappings.  The proposed
   method is fully compatible with the original DNS lookup mechanisms
   specified in [1], i.e. there is no need to modify the lookup
   algorithm used, and there should be no need to modify any software
   which does DNS lookups.
 
   The document also discusses some operational considerations to
   provide some guidance in implementing this method.

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