[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM, DrKJam <drkjam at gmail.com> wrote:

> The current version of the PEP and reference implementation do not mention
> or deal with IPv4 classful addressing (A, B, C, D and E). It would be good
> to know if any of this (admittedly older yet no less important)
> functionality is going to be supported. If the library is to concentrate
> solely on classless addressing (i.e. CIDR) please can this be stated in
> future revisions of the PEP.
>

Classful addressing was deprecated more than 15 years ago!

Quoting RFC 4632: "With the full deployment of CIDR on the Internet, such
scenarios are no longer operationally relevant."

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