Re: [HACKERS] cidr

On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> > As far as the name, we just want a name that makes it clear to novices what
> > the module does. ip_and_mac is pretty clear. I have no idea what a cidr
> > is. If you can think of a more descriptive name, let's go for it.
>
> cidr = classless internet domain routing. it's the "204.152.184/21" notation.
>
> i'm not sure we need a type name that makes sense to novices. what we need
> is an example in the "type range" column. if we can say that int2's allowed
> ranges are 0 to 65535 and have folks get what we mean without further intro,
> then we can teach novices about cidr by saying that allowable ranges are 0/0
> through 255.255.255.255/32.

I have to agree with Paul here...its like mis-representing tuples
as rows and fields as columns. It means the same, but it *isn't* the
proper terminology. By using 'ip_and_mac' where it should be 'cidr', we
are just propogating incorrect terminology...

With that in mind, can we work at having a 'cidr' type as part of
the overall system, vs contrib? I know that *I* would use it alot more if
I didn't have to think of loading it seperately...and I can think of at
least two of my projects that I'd use it in...

Considering that we are now up to three ppl out there that are
willing to work on this, I think we should be able to come up with a
'consensus' as to what we are going to be considering "the standard" for
the base implementation?

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org