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Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

  • From: Scott Francis
  • Date: Thu Oct 03 15:27:38 2002

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:10:15PM -0600, [email protected] said:
> 
> I'm doing a presentation and white paper to convince a bunch 
> of people that network addressing is one of (if not the 
> most) important aspect of network design and management. The 
> goal is to convince them that we need a plan, which will 
> probably require them to do some renumbering.
> 
> I'm looking for a couple of good quotes to include in the 
> presentation. Anyone got some good ones from some 
> Internet/network luminaries? Something to confirm the 
> importance of a generally boring topic.

Not sure how applicable it may be, but the OpenBSD FAQ has referenced (since
at least 2.7) a paper called "Understanding IP Addressing" that I found to be
pretty useful.
http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en_US/technology/tech_paper.jsp?DOC_ID=135
http://www.3com.com/other/pdfs/infra/corpinfo/en_US/501302.pdf

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