[196129] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC 1918 network range choices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Kantor)
Fri Oct 6 03:32:54 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:21:23 -0700
From: Brian Kantor <Brian@ampr.org>
To: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <12872.1507230282@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 03:04:42PM -0400, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Can't speak t the ASICs, but CIDR existed, even if your vendor was behind the
> times and still calling stuff class A/B/C. (Such nonsense persisted well into
> this century). Check the dates...
The concept of using a number-of-bits to describe
what is now called CIDR existed as early as 1987:
http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/misc/tcp_ip/8706.mm.www/0011.html
- Brian
