7 Jan
1997
7 Jan
'97
7:35 p.m.
At 17:25 1/7/97, John W. Stewart III wrote:
conventions are fine
and it's helpful to users and operators alike for names to contain a fair amount of information
but "standardizing" with fixed-width fields, pop codes, next-hop router, etc. doesn't seem that productive when providers are gonna do what they want anyway.
No... we're going to mandate OID-style router names for the world's Internet providers: <isoc-tree>.<internet-infrastructure branch>. <iso country code>.<city ordinal>.<provider #>. <facility #>.<rack #>.<shelf #>.<router ordinal> Great fun to watch (it could be happening this way in the alternate universe next door.) ;-) /John