26 Aug
1999
26 Aug
'99
1:43 p.m.
What this proposal appears to be proposing is to permit NON-CONTIGUOUS netmasks such as:
255.128.127.0
Or, in binary:
1111111111 10000000 01111111 00000000
Thus, the network number would actually consist of all 8 bits of octet one, the first bit of octet two, the last 7 bits of octet 3 and none of octed four.
Non-contigious masks were allowed up until the CIDR era... :) --bill