Re: Statements against new.net?

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