Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved address blocks with Dave Taht and Seth Schoen

Modulate Demodulate - The ModemCast

We’ve been busy! At least that’s our excuse. We recorded this episode with Dave Taht and Seth David Schoen about some new drafts they wrote for the Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved address blocks such as 240.0.0.0, 127.0.0.0 and a few others, back in February. Needless to say, it was pretty interesting. Full of very polarizing topics (for oh-so-many reasons) this winding and wandering podcast lays out the history as well as the justifications for taking such address blocks - historically held as “untouchable” - and advocates for moving them into general use. Take a listen and decide for yourself!

Links Mentioned

• Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 240/4

• The IPv4 Cleanup Project GitHub Repo

• Original Bufferbloat MODEM episode with Dave

• MODEM DoD Space Episode
• postel.org ISI mailing list
• AWS Reachability Page