----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Casner" <cas...@acm.org> To: "Noel Chiappa" <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: <ietf@ietf.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:10 PM > On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > > > > > "Martian" is nice expression. > > > > Weren't 'unusual' packets called 'Martians' at some early stage of Internet > > work? It certainly has history in the IETF as a term of art, I think that's > > it. > > Yes, attributed to Dave Mills, I believe, along with a number of other > colorful expressions.
And still in use today, in routing or operations, as in RFC4379, " In particular, the default behavior is to treat packets destined to a 127/8 address as "martians". " Tom Petch > -- Steve >
