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Unicast Use of the Lowest Address in an IPv4 Subnet
draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-lowest-address-04

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Authors Seth David Schoen , John IETF Gilmore , David M. Täht , Michael J. Karels
Last updated 2023-11-25 (Latest revision 2023-05-24)
Replaces draft-schoen-intarea-lowest-address
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Abstract

With ever-increasing pressure to conserve IP address space on the Internet, it makes sense to consider where relatively minor changes can be made to fielded practice to improve numbering efficiency. One such change, proposed by this document, is to increase the number of unicast addresses in each existing subnet, by redefining the use of the lowest-numbered (zeroth) host address in each IPv4 subnet as an ordinary unicast host identifier, instead of as a duplicate segment- directed broadcast address.

Authors

Seth David Schoen
John IETF Gilmore
David M. Täht
Michael J. Karels

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