cwr@nexthop.com (Christopher W. Richardson) writes:

> It may violate POLA, but it is expected if you've been around
> networking a while.  That address is by default a class B.

It seems unnatural to me to use network class semantics for addresses
that are specified using classless syntax.  10.1 is 10.0.0.1 class A,
but 10.1/16 is 10.1.0.0 with a 16 bit subnet mask.  At least that's
what feels right to me.  (Not that that cuts any ice, I know...)  :-)

...but even if I'm wrong, I'd suggest that it makes sense to have
output from applications *not* use shortcuts, to keep people from
misunderstanding -- and to make sure the output will always be parsed
as the same value if given as input.

-tih
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