Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:00:43 -0700 From: "Jeff Shultz" <jeffshul@wvi.com> To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IP address fee??

Possibly because that is what they are still teaching them as in school?

As much as I hate to interject this... CIDR is fairly new to me, but referring to a "Class C" address conveys some pretty specific information ... Similar to referring to 139.98/24. To *me*, Class C implies a specific address range (probably no longer needed) with specific masks, et al... Oh well, back to lurk mode... Regards, gregory Hicks

Seriously... I'm not sure that the teachers I had for networking and systems admin had ever heard of CIDR.

The textbooks hadn't. It was a nice bump in the learning curve when I hit the real world.

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On 9/5/2002 at 1:48 PM Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:36:27PM -0400, Derek Samford wrote:

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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?

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