hello mike,
Good stuff!
Yes indeed!
me too.
. I'm slightly unhappy with the frequent use of the terms "class A" and "class C". I think we are trying for a while now to sort of phase-out the usage of these terms. So I'd prefer to
- clearly qualify the usage of these terms as obsolete, or "old classful terminology",
- wherever possible, please replace "class x" with the appropriate address range. I think this would make the paper more obvious anyway.
Not an easy one. Sure, you can put the offending terms in quotes, as Wilfried does, to indicate disdain for this old politically incorrect terminology. But there's no getting away from the fact that when you say Class A in the document, you really mean Class A and not /8 - you don't mean that 196.0.0.0/8, for example, comes under the heading of Class A for the purposes of special allocation.
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.
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?
Cheers. Mike
cheerio, dinyl.