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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IP address fee??
Thus spake "Richard A Steenbergen" <[email protected]> > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:00:43AM -0700, Jeff Shultz wrote: > > > > Possibly because that is what they are still teaching them as in > > school? > > > > 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. > > I've never seen a text book which had any relevance to modern networking > which didn't cover CIDR. Sadly, most texts I've read, and certainly all the current courseware I've looked at, still teach classful addressing and subnetting as the primary method with a sidebar on CIDR as the "new" method. > Perhaps if we all made a conscious effort to avoid using the term, new > people who are learning from the examples they see around them would stop > picking up on it as "how things work". > > History is nice, but not knowing when to give up and move on is just sad. The term class C sticks because it's so useful; you'll note that class [AB] aren't used much colloquially. This is how English evolves. S
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