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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET
Message-ID: <1990Jun15.171424.2941@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 15 Jun 90 17:14:24 GMT
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In-Reply-To: johnan@mchale.ism.isc.com (John Antypas)

In article <43957@ism780c.isc.com>, johnan@mchale (John Antypas) writes:
| A nice idea, but with all of the talk about address spacing becoming
| hard to find, the idea of re-using 10 as a Class A, or splitting it into
| 256 class B's needs to be considered.  That's a lot of new customers
| for Internet.  Consider that net is over 65535 class C spaces!  Do we
| want to give Interop 16x10^6 addresses!

Finding 65535 class C-type customers that all wanted to have their
nets adjacent and one naming authority is a bit much.  There isn't any
way in the current software (pardon my ignorance if there is) to have
non-adjacent subnets.  You can only have "route to net 10" not "route
to 10.11.23", unless you happen to have interfaces that are current
net 10 subnets.

Just to throw my vote in the ring, I don't know who Interop is, but if
they had something to do with the early net, let'em have the number.
By the time we need the 126'th class A address, we'll be hurting in
other ways. :-)

Just another net hacker,
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