[atlas] [mat-wg] RIPE Atlas testing of reserved IPv4 addresses

On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 17:40, Bengt Gördén <bengan at resilans.se> wrote:
> I don't agree. This is a measurement tool. Whatever people think about extending
> or not extending the lifetime of ipv4 is irrelevant. It shouldn't hinder
> measurements of said networks. If there's networks out there that pass 0/8 and
> 240/4 it's VERY relevant to measure it. Just because you can't see it it doesn't
> mean it's not there.

I support this notion, too - Avoinding the part about if it's stupid
or "brilliant" to expand the public v4 space - Focusing on the RIPE
Atlas part.

Knowing the current extent to which e.g. 240/4 is deployed in the wild
from a measurement perspective I find an interesting object to read
"research results" on.

Putting this in as a future [feature request] for the software
development of the RIPE Atlas probe software (for the developer team
to evaluate) I do not see an issue with it at all.

Thou, all feature requests (regarding the RIPE Atlas software) should
of course be objectively analyzed. How "expensive" the feature request
will be factually implemented in the end. I.e. the "usual" impact
analysis.

-- 
Chriztoffer