Proposal for Temporary Special Class A Space Guidelines

Why not leave it as it used to be, but just add the "/"  notation since
most people still refer to the "Class" IP addresses.

It would avoid confusion, and everybody knows what you mean when you refer
to a network with the / notation.

Ronald Kraaijer

At 11:22 AM +0100 3/7/97, Yves Devillers wrote:
>In message <199703061746.RAA28808 at halo.theplanet.net>
>john.murray at planet.net.uk wrote:
>
>
>   > Instead of Class A, you could say "addresses in the range
>   > 1.0.0.0 - 126.255.255.255" or something, but this could be
>   > clumsy and why not use the term that means the same, anyway.
>
>    How about just:
>
>      0.0.0.0/2	(old 'A' space)
>    128.0.0.0/2	(old 'B' space)
>    192.0.0.0/2	(old 'C' space)
>
>==> "Formerley known as" or "formerly named" is probably more precise (at
>least
>to non-english speakers) that "old" (how old is your A space ?)
>
>
> Yves Devillers
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