Re: [SPAM] Re: Last Call: draft-iana-ipv4-examples (IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation) to Informational RFC

[Jari Arkko <jari.arkko at piuha.net>]

Geoff,

> > Is everyone happy with this course of action? 
>
> works for me 

Good.

> I would avoid this - the problem is that if a future rfc3330 revision 
> drops another block from the reserved set, then this raises the 
> question of if you really meant it if the explicit documentation is 
> missing.

I'd like to push back a little on this. My personal preference is a 
specification style which makes everything very explicit. If a block has 
been used for examples, I think we owe it to the reader to say what its 
fate was. I do agree though that we should not set a precedent that 
every block not listed in RFC 3330(bis)* needs to be explicitly 
mentioned or else they are still somehow reserved. But maybe there is a 
way to write the text that this becomes clearer. How about this:

 Note that 128.66.0.0/16 has been used for some examples in
 the past. However, this role was never specified formally and
 RFC 3330 confirmed that this block has no special role by not
 listing it.

Jari