Proposal for Temporary Special Class A Space Guidelines

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Mike Norris wrote:

> 
> >i agree it's helluva clumsy and i've got an idea to use the (i think) easily
> >understood term "traditional class A address space" which is meant as
> >`all addresses in the range 1.0.0.0-126.255.255.255.' what's your opinion?
> 
> Dinyl
>      yes, I think 'traditional' is a good choice of word.
> The use of terms like 'Class A' is traditional and the 
> meaning is well known in terms of the range of addresses
> covered.  At the same time, the adjective 'traditional' 
> is fairly neutral.
> 
> Mind you, I wonder whether the Internet is old enough yet
> to have traditions.  Habits maybe, but traditions...?
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Mike
> 

Trasitions means its still carried out. How about 'Historic Class A'
Hopefully meaning that its not practised any more!

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