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From: postel@cup.portal.COM
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Network Numbers (was Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET)
Message-ID: <9006160907.2.12619@cup.portal.com>
Date: 16 Jun 90 16:07:12 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.