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Is it just me, or does the excessive use of undefined acronyms make this a difficult read for everyone else too? At the very least, please annotate your first
by djrogers 9y ago
Is it just me, or does the excessive use of undefined acronyms make this a difficult read for everyone else too? At the very least, please annotate your first use of acronyms like LIR and RIR so us outsiders have some context.
- jwr 9y agoI'd say that if you don't understand the acronyms, you won't find the rest of the article useful or informative, either, so I don't think it's much of a problem.
- comex 9y agoSpeak for yourself. I know what an /8 is, know what it means to be running out of IPv4 addresses and having to ration the last ones available, and am interested in news about how that process is going, especially insofar as it affects the transition to IPv6. That was enough for me to grasp the majority of the current article, which I found informative. But I’ve never interacted with the IP address allocation process myself, nor is it all that central to my interests, so my knowledge is relatively skin deep. I could tell you what ICANN was and probably remembered that RIPE was one of its regional affiliates, but not much more than that. In particular, I had no idea what an RIR or LIR was. So, while I didn’t mind the use of jargon, neither would it have hurt to spell out the acronyms the first time.
- dredmorbius 9y agoRIR is (unclearly) given: regional internet registry. Your complaint is otherwise wholly valid.
- jlgaddis 9y agoThe intended target audience of this article are people who already know what all of those acronyms mean.