[ih] 13 the unlucky number (fwd)

[Joseph Touch]

Hi, all,

As noted, it’s hard to guess, but I agree that Jon was not superstitious.

However, let’s not discount that the applicants could have been (i.e., and not wanted that value).

There’s the odd possibility that it might trip up some interpreters because it is ^M (CR), but I would hope that wouldn’t be the reason.

Joe

> On Aug 11, 2020, at 9:23 AM, jericho via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> Only one reply and it did not provide an explanation. Figure this might be the group to answer it.
> 
> Brian
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alejandro Acosta via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org>
> To: Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org>
> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:58:54 -0400
> Reply-To: Alejandro Acosta <alejandroacostaalamo at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ih] 13 the unlucky number
> 
> Hello list,
> 
>   I have a question and one more time I believe this a good place to ask.
> 
>   During the weekend I read the old RFC 790 (ASSIGNED NUMBERS). When reading it I noticed the following:
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> {...}
> 
>       009.rrr.rrr.rrr   BRAGG-PR      Ft. Bragg Packet Radio Net [JEM]
>       010.rrr.rrr.rrr   ARPANET       ARPANET [17,1,VGC]
>       011.rrr.rrr.rrr   UCLNET        University College London     [PK]
>       012.rrr.rrr.rrr   CYCLADES      CYCLADES [VGC]
>       013.rrr.rrr.rrr                 Unassigned [JBP]
>       014.rrr.rrr.rrr   TELENET       TELENET [VGC]
>       015.rrr.rrr.rrr   EPSS          British Post Office EPSS      [PK]
>       016.rrr.rrr.rrr   DATAPAC       DATAPAC [VGC]
>       017.rrr.rrr.rrr   TRANSPAC      TRANSPAC [VGC]
>       018.rrr.rrr.rrr   LCSNET        MIT LCS Network [43,10,DDC2]
> 
> {...}
> 
> 
>   As you can see the 013.rrr.rrr.rrr was unassigned but some subsequent prefix were (014, 015 ..... ). Is there any reason for it?. I know 013 was later assigned to XEROX-NET.
> 
>   I wonder if 013 was skipped because some sort of superstitions?.
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Alejandro,
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