[ih] Some Questions over IPv4 Ownership

[sbrim at cisco.com (Scott Brim)]

On 10/14/2010 00:22 EDT, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Pure serendipity. The basic mechanism used (the bit-mask) allowed
>> non-continguous masks as a natural consequence of the mechanism; we would
>> have had to specifically disallow them, and we didn't bother to. I seem to
>> recall we thought we'd leave them in, and see if people found some good use
>> for them.
> 
> paul tsuchiya's still unfindable campei non-contiguous subnet mask
> architecture c. 1992
> 
> randy
> 

kampai and rfc1219?

As for actual use, I recall some planned uses of discontiguous mask but
I don't remember anyone actually putting them in production.