[AusNOG] So who's read an RFC or Internet Draft?

[Greg]

     I am finishing off a Uni assignment project(subnetting) at the 
moment and have had my head buried in some RFC's of late. What has stood 
out for me in RFC's has been the history timelines of basic topics like 
subnets and how they came to pass!

RFC791- (1981) introduced IP as well as classfull addressing concepts 
e.g class A,B,C concepts (subnetting was implicitly integrated into each 
class, without actually using the word 'subnet' you either got 
16Million/65K/254.. addresses on your particular network class to use!).

RFC917- (1984) the concept of subnetting was introduced !

RFC950-(1985) A standard for subnetting was introduced.

RFC1518/1519(1993) - Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) - A 
realization that IP exhaustion would occur and  super/subnetting could 
assist with this issue. This had me then researching how big the 
internet was and who owned what IP's in those days.. Then I found this 
little goldmine text document showing effectively who owned what IP 
ranges back 1992  >> 
ftp://nic.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/a.dump.of.funet.fi-ftp.archive.1996-10-25/netinfo/netinfo/network-contacts.txt

How things have changed...
Cheers
Greg

On 24/09/2015 12:42 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
> So just around a month ago I presented "Why you should read RFCs and
> Internet Drafts" at the AusNOG conference.
>
> "Why you should read RFCs and Internet Drafts (and what you need to
> know to do so)"
> http://www.slideshare.net/MarkSmith214/wysrrfcsandids
>
> So while I got free attendance and a free dinner out of spending time
> on preparing and presenting it, what I'd really like to have achieved
> is somebody has read an RFC or Internet Draft where as previously they
> hadn't.
>
> So has anybody read an RFC or ID because of what I put in the
> presentation? Email me off-list if you like, or possibly even better,
> post to the list the RFC or ID you've read and maybe why you read it
> and/or what you found interesting about it.
>
> Or perhaps you've just signed up to an IETF WG mailing list or two and
> are just lurking?
>
>
> Regards,
> Mark.
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