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Subject: Re: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET
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Date: 16 Jun 90 06:06:41 GMT
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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.
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