[PATCH] Don't treat 0/8 and 240/4 specially in IPv4 classification

Juliusz Chroboczek jch at irif.fr
Sat Dec 31 15:45:25 CET 2022


> from my perspective the time to prolong the IPv4 usage is over.

I agree.

But that's not what this debate is about.  It's about whether it is the
role of the authors and maintainers to enforce the desired behaviour
(which is what Maria is arguing for), or whether the maintainers should
merely provide reasonable defaults but refrain from dictating how the
users should use the software (which is Martin's position).

It's an interesting debate, and one that most free software projects go
through at one point or another.  I, for one, have changed my mind on the
subject multiple times.

-- Juliusz


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