----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Casner" <casner(_at_)acm(_dot_)org>
To: "Noel Chiappa" <jnc(_at_)mercury(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu>
Cc: <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)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