[35647] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Statements against new.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Wed Mar 14 07:44:57 2001
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:04:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> I suppose the*next* thing we'll see is people complaining that the
> concept of CIDR is an evil value judgement, because you need to decide what
> aggregation to do in order to keep the routing table a manageable size.
>
> And sometime in May, we'll have the complaints that IP addresses are
> political because they only allow 256 values per octet, and a
> class-action lawsuit is planned for the number 257, 258, -3, and all
> the fractions.
>
The same way you can get a custome license plate or order an easily
remembered phone number - I am sure someone will soon sue to get an IP
address of 1.1.1.1.
Give it up, Valdis, you ain't gonna convince the people who see $ signs in
all this.
-Hank
