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From: postel@VENERA.ISI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Network Numbers (was Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET)
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Date: 15 Jun 90 23:21:10 GMT
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Hey!

We've got more important problems to solve than to hack the address space.

There are about 16,000 class B address of which we've assigned about
2,500, and only 1,600 active nets of all classes in the interconnected
Internet.

--jon.