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Re: IP address fee??

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bdragon@gweep.net)
Sun Sep 8 17:30:07 2002

To: ras@e-gerbil.net (Richard A Steenbergen)
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:29:29 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20020905174820.GU53265@overlord.e-gerbil.net> from "Richard A Steenbergen" at Sep 05, 2002 01:48:20 PM
From: <bdragon@gweep.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:36:27PM -0400, Derek Samford wrote:
> > Shane,
> >             There is a practice on that (At least here.). Generally we
> > provide a Class C to our customers at no additional charge, but we have
> 
> Why in this day and age, 9 years after the invention of CIDR, are we still 
> refering to "class C"'s?

Probably for the same reason that people refer to 56K baud modems.
It is easier to say, and most people don't care if it is accurate or not.


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