Re: Last Call: <draft-bonica-special-purpose-03.txt> (Special-Purpose Address Registries) to Best Current Practice

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

first cuppa, so i am easily confuddled.  and apologies for doing this at
last call.

are the following definitions

   o  Routable - A boolean value indicating whether a IP datagram whose
      destination address is drawn from the allocated special-purpose
      address block is routable (i.e., may traverse more than a single
      IP interface)

   o  Global - A boolean value indicating whether a IP datagram whose
      destination address is drawn from the allocated special-purpose
      address block is routable beyond a specified administrative
      domain.

intended to be baked in hardware, or are they SHOULDs to operators?  i
look at RFC 1918 space and 127.0.0.0/8 and am not so sure how hard these
boundaries are meant to be.  i worry because i think we regret how we
specified (threw away is more like it) E space.

does the prefix describes a specific prefix length or a covering range?

e.g. 192.0.0.0/24 is neither routable nor global, while a subnet,
192.0.0.0/29, is routable.  i.e. might i route and forward
192.0.0.128/25?

randy