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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET
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Date: 27 Jun 90 17:46:55 GMT
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If we could hope to expunge all the Class A nets, we might be able to
redefine 127 class A nets as 32,000 new Class B nets in a future
HRRFC.  Given that we've actually used 2,500 out of the 16,000
possible, this might be worth adding to the enormous thrashing among
developers as the millenium approaches.  It would also legislate
away "net 89", and "127.0.0.1".

Presumably plenty of the 2 million possible class C nets remain
to be allocated...

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