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A comment on IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances. Parent comment

Re:IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances by zozbot234 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @07:49AM (#29329476)
The proposal is about shrinking the reserved loopback range from 127.0.0.0/8 to 127.0.0.0/16. Everything from 127.1 to 127.255 would then become ordinary IPv4 addresses.
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Re:IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances by icedchai on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @09:47AM (#29330444)
This is just a proposal. It will likely never happen. The proposal to open 240/4 (former class-E / reserved IPv4 space) is more feasible.
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Re:IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances by ericbarrett on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @11:14AM (#29331492)
Can't see this being useful. There are so many devices and so much software with 127.0.0.0/8 baked in that I suspect an address in the proposed range would be less routable (overall) than an IPv6-only endpoint, and remain so for years, even if it became official.
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