[33795] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Labeling and naming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kristoff)
Wed Jan 24 12:04:56 2001
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:02:14 -0600
From: John Kristoff <jtk@depaul.edu>
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In addition to all the other advice you've gotten, be careful about
using a code outside of your control as part of your labeling scheme.
For example, there was once an engineer who thought it would be keen to
base the name/address of devices to the telephone area code they resided
in. It only took about a year before the local telco made area code
changes rendering the use of the naming scheme meaningless. That was
about 5 years ago and last I heard the scheme is still be used. At
least the mistake is a standardized one. :-)
John
