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Date:      Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:37:40 +0100
From:      Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising@gmail.com>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Subject:   Re: Removing CIDR references (Was: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install chapter.sgml)
Message-ID:  <45773824.2070809@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <457706E4.5050805@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote:
> [ 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
> 

I can probably hack something together later this week. At least a 
"draft" to have something to start with.
Regards!
//Niclas



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