From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 18:07:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B915816A417 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 18:07:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55B1B43CD2 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 18:06:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 30113 invoked by uid 399); 6 Dec 2006 18:07:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.7?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Dec 2006 18:07:34 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <457706E4.5050805@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:07:32 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.freebsd.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Niclas Zeising References: <20061205161214.GB3357@kobe.laptop> <20061205203738.251FD45042@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Giorgos Keramidas , Dmitry Morozovsky Subject: Removing CIDR references (Was: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:07:50 -0000 [ Moving to -doc ] Niclas Zeising wrote: > Maybe we should mention somewhere that the old class A/B/C networks > have been obsoleted by CDIR It's probably worth having a brief paragraph about this if someone wants to write one up. > and not simply remove all references to it. The terminology is over a decade obsolete. Continuing to refer to it makes us look silly. > I also think we should explain a bit about how CDIR works, as > someone suggested. You can also point people to > http://www.3com.com/other/pdfs/infra/corpinfo/en_US/501302.pdf which > explains a lot about CDIR, subnetting and whatnot. Good suggestion, if someone wants to write it up. :) Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection