Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

Thu Oct 3 21:03:17 UTC 2002

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:

:I'm doing a presentation and white paper to convince a bunch 
:of people that network addressing is one of (if not the 
:most) important aspect of network design and management. The 
:goal is to convince them that we need a plan, which will 
:probably require them to do some renumbering.

I am not a network luminary, however, I had to explain the 
importance of DNS, particularly reverse lookups to an alleged
network architect the other day. It went something like: 

"Network numbering and name resolution must be implemented in a way
that meaningfully represents the connection between a network
connected device and its business function." 

This doesn't address routing, scalability, or any of the other issues
in network numbering, but as someone whose job it is to track down 
misbehaving hosts, this kind of meaningful information is critical. 

--
batz