Roy Badami [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-01-15 📝 Original message:On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-01-15
📝 Original message:On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 03:44:17PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> "static address" seems like a reasonable attempt at describing intended
> use/direction.
...as opposed to an address configured by DHCP?
More seriously, I don't think a typical user will understand anything from
the phrase "static address". But it is a neutral name, and it is shorter
than "address-of-a-type-for-which-reuse-is-not-deprecated". :-)
-roy
📝 Original message:On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 03:44:17PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> "static address" seems like a reasonable attempt at describing intended
> use/direction.
...as opposed to an address configured by DHCP?
More seriously, I don't think a typical user will understand anything from
the phrase "static address". But it is a neutral name, and it is shorter
than "address-of-a-type-for-which-reuse-is-not-deprecated". :-)
-roy