From: Wesley Darlington (wesley at domain yelsew.com)
Date: Tue 21 Aug 2001 - 13:17:36 IST
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:49:01PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 03:29:57PM -0400, Wesley Darlington wrote:
>
> > [0] I find this page fascinating. That BBN have *three* /8s (4, 6 & 46)
> > is (to me) an interesting snippet. That they are AS1 is a similarly
> > interesting snippet. (ftp://rs.arin.net/netinfo/asn.txt)
>
> Well, as Kevin mentioned, they were in at the beginning. However, I can't
> imagine that BBN at this point in time actually need those three class A
> addresses (and they're class A addresses, not /8s - their allocation long
> predates classless addressing. And yes, I know I'm being pedantic). In fact,
Nothing wrong with pedantry. However, `4', `6' and `46' aren't in
themselves (or even in this context) class A _addresses_. They are
allocations out of the class A range. 4.4.4.4 - now *that's* a class
A address. :-)
Just because the notation `/8' hadn't been devised when BBN said "we'll
have that one, that one and ... that one" doesn't mean the terminology
cannot be retrospectively applied. It's a bit like saying that ...
(frantically trying to think of a suitable analogy but failing) ...
that the world's first <something> wasn't actually a <something>
because the word <something> hadn't been coined then... :-)
Wesley.
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