Re: Going Postal?
No, the lollipop-shaped number space was a mistake. As was putting the MAC address into the NSAPA. Both ideas came from DECnet Phase V. Radia Perlman, a brilliant woman, came up with the lollipop-shaped space, but later told me (I was at DEC) that it was wrong, and didn't really fix anything. But sometimes a mistake is taken to be gospel, and even its inventors can't correct it. TCP/IP is full of them. And they're obvious if you don't (incorrectly) assume that their creators were smarter than you. Radia was smarter and she admitted a mistake. Lesser minds pretend to be infallible. And sometimes get elected.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
