> as most of you know by now, jon postel, the original IANA, died last week.
> i'm sorry that i've been so flakey in my correspondance here but it's been
> a rough time for those of us who knew him and/or who were helping him turn
> IANA into a new nonprofit corporation called ICANN. see http://www.iana.org/
> for more details.
>
> the original "cidr" type was written as part of a prototype registry to let
> IANA take back some of the duties it had outsourced to InterNIC. so while
> COM, NET, and ORG are likely to continue to be operated by NSI/InterNIC for
> the next few years, and while the networks and ASNs are being handed out via
> regional registries, there is a "top level" registry function that IANA, and
> now ICANN, has to provide directly.
>
> i wanted this to be done with postgres, and i am still working toward that.
> here are some brief notes on the overall database structure i envisioned, in
> case anyone is wondering about the application "cidr" was written for. note
> that the type will at present be called "inet" in pgsql 6.4.
>
> i would be very happy if someone with access to the pgsql 6.4 sources would
> add a comment to the top of the file which implements the CIDR/INET type,
> to the effect of /* JBP RIP 16Oct98 */. thanks.
Added. I put this at the top of the inet.c file, and next to your name
on the TODO list. It is on the web site TODO list now. Hope it is OK.
I have spelled out his full name:
* Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com> (Jon Postel RIP 16 Oct 1998)
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