Ancient Wisdom (perals from Milo)
William Manning <bmanning@is.rice.edu> Sun, 03 April 1994 16:09 UTC
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From: William Manning <bmanning@is.rice.edu>
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Subject: Ancient Wisdom (perals from Milo)
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Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1994 10:43:52 -0500
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> To: Vince Fuller <vaf@valinor.stanford.edu> > Date: Wed, 28 Jul 93 13:49:47 -0700 > From: "Milo S. Medin" (NASA ARC NSI Office) <medin@nsipo.nasa.gov> > > > I strongly agree. The issue of an "all-nets" broadcast is inconsistent with > classless network routing. We should be taking steps to eliminate > knowledge of class in all router and host implementations, as flexibility > here will certainly be helpful in increasing the lifetime of the IPv4 > protocol suite, and transitions from that suite. I always thought the "all > nets" broadcast was a broken idea for many reasons, this being one of them. > -- Regards, Bill Manning
- Ancient Wisdom (perals from Milo) William Manning