[51800] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP address fee??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Fri Sep 6 13:20:22 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:18:54 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Stephen Sprunk <ssprunk@cisco.com>
Cc: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>,
Derek Samford <dsamford@fastduck.net>,
"'Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL)'" <sowens@epik.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <00d401c255c5$052e16a0$dd876540@amer.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:41:07AM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>
> I'd bet most of the customers I deal with learned networking from OS
> manuals or CCNA study books, all of which still teach classful
> addressing as the primary method. All of the ones I work with use the
> term "C" or "class C" to refer to a /24, and all are noticeably slower
> when dealing with non-/24 masks.
>
> The point of communication is to get an idea across; if most of the
> people you communicate with don't understand slash notation, then you
> use terms they're familiar with even if they're imprecise or inaccurate.
>
> I think NANOG's ISP-centric membership may skew the perception of our
> lexicon's state. Most network operators are not ISPs.
And half the internet's users type "u r kewl", and think that ethernet is
a broadband connection.
Just because a misconception is popular doesn't mean we should indulge it.
:)
Think of it as a public service, if you make an effort to say "/24", and
someone asks and you explain it, thats one less confused person
circulating around teaching others.
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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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