[51758] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP address fee??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Forrest W. Christian)
Fri Sep 6 02:18:42 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 00:16:27 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Derek Samford <dsamford@fastduck.net>,
"'Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL)'" <sowens@epik.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020905174820.GU53265@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> Why in this day and age, 9 years after the invention of CIDR, are we still
> refering to "class C"'s?
I submit that the comonly used definition of "Class C" has changed from
"An address in the class C range" to "a block of addresses aligned on a
/24 boundary".
My guess of the real underlying reason is that saying "I need a full class
C" or "I need a block of [4,8,16,32,64] addresses" seems to be a lot
easier to say in a clear fashion over the phone or in person than "I need
a slash-twentyfour".
- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE
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