[51773] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP address fee??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Sep 6 10:05:54 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:00:52 -0400
From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
To: Stephen Sprunk <ssprunk@cisco.com>
Cc: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
Derek Samford <dsamford@fastduck.net>,
"'Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL)'" <sowens@epik.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <02e801c25507$f1d33d00$dd876540@amer.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:13:27PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Because "Cee" is easier to pronounce than "slash twenty-four". Ease of use
> trumps open standards yet again :)
Nobody was talking. "/24" is easier to type than "class C". No
trumps! Everybody loses!
How many people learn about networks from certification courses or
in school, anyway? It was always my impression that people learnt
mainly by listening to other people.
If networking on the front lines is an informal oral tradition more
than it is a taught science, then perhaps it's natural for obsolete
terminology to continue to be "taught" long after it stopped having
any relevance.
Joe
