Subject: Protocol Action: Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links to Proposed Standard

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:13:49 -0500

The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4
Point-to-Point Links' <draft-retana-31bits-03.txt> as a Proposed
Standard. This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of
an IETF Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Randy Bush and Bert Wijnen.

Technical Summary
 
 This document describes small changes to RFCs 1122, 1700, and 1812 which
 allow operators to halve the amount of address space assigned to point-
 to-point links by allowing the very limited use of 31-bit subnet masks.

Working Group Summary

 There were no substantive technical comments during a four week IETF
 lass call.

Protocol Quality

 The document was reviewed for the IESG by Randy Bush.  Trial
 implementations have been promised from two vendors.