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RE: Network Naming Conventions


From: "Paul Stewart" <pstewart () nexicomgroup net>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:59:00 -0400

I have yet to see a core router named "Luke" or "Bart"... ;)

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From: Joe Greco [mailto:jgreco () ns sol net]
Sent: March-14-10 11:11 PM
To: Rubens Kuhl
Cc: Paul Stewart; NANOG list
Subject: Re: Network Naming Conventions

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Paul Stewart <pstewart () nexicomgroup net> wrote:
Yeah, just learning that... got a *tonne* of offline replies.

Planets won't work well, simpson characters we'll run out very
quickly.... umm.. forgot the rest.  We were looking for something that
makes sense to the function of the box itself and scales up (as per some
other folks point)....

With 726 episodes in 30 TV seasons and 11 feature films, it's very
difficult to run out of Star Trek characters. Not main characters,
though.

Not to mention all the books, etc.

Really, it's not hard to find precompiled lists of this sort of stuff.
One could start at someplace like http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Coruscant
for Star WARS (not Trek) stuff and probably scale up to a very large size
with all the names, places, planets, etc.

In the old days (pre-Web), it was actually a lot harder to come up with
a comprehensive naming scheme.

... JG
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