Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!usc!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 90 17:20:49 GMT References: <9006141247.AA10456@europa.Com> <43957@ism780c.isc.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 27 In-reply-to: johnan@mchale.ism.isc.com's message of 15 Jun 90 14:38:50 GMT In article <43957@ism780c.isc.com> johnan@mchale.ism.isc.com (John Antypas) writes: | In article <9006141247.AA10456@europa.Com> kasten@europa.interlan.COM (Frank Kastenholz) writes: | > | >How about officially assigning NET 10 to Interop - then it could be brought out | >of retirement each year for all of the newcomers to look at - sort of like | >the IMP last year. Maybe during the "off season" Interop could keep 2 PC's | >running in a backroom on some Ethernet, pinging each other - on NET 10. | > | 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! I suspect you will either have a massive flag day or lots of systems that will refuse to talk to the proposed carved up addresses. I thought there were only ~30-40 class A networks, out of ~126 possible class A network numbers. I also seem to remember dimly that class E network numbers which are not used, were mentioned as means of adding massive new network numbers. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so