Just because I'm tired of this, it's mostly due to customer work. I learned CIDR first and foremost. I payed near no attention to Classful addressing. I just am in the habit, in particular, of saying Class C instead of /24. Any other block I use the CIDR notation, and then still have to explain how many this is. I cannot believe that everyone is really being this ridiculous. Can you all let this thread die. Yes, we should refer to everything as CIDR. No, 90% of our clients don't understand that. Yes, sometimes that carries over into tech conversations. Enough. Derek
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley@automagic.org] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 10:01 AM To: Stephen Sprunk Cc: Richard A Steenbergen; Derek Samford; 'Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL)'; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: IP address fee??
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:13:27PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Because "Cee" is easier to pronounce than "slash twenty-four". Ease of use trumps open standards yet again :)
Nobody was talking. "/24" is easier to type than "class C". No trumps! Everybody loses!
How many people learn about networks from certification courses or in school, anyway? It was always my impression that people learnt mainly by listening to other people.
If networking on the front lines is an informal oral tradition more than it is a taught science, then perhaps it's natural for obsolete terminology to continue to be "taught" long after it stopped having any relevance.
Joe