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Subject: Re: special addresses
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 19:10:46 EDT
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From: jbn@FORD-WDL1.ARPA

      Someone needs to nail this down.  The meaning of ``broadcast
addressing'' in IP space is not well defined at present, and needs
to be.  
      Incidentally, it is probably a bad idea to have special addresses
that only can be decoded after you know how many bits of subnet information
apply.  This applies to [0.0.0.x], [0.0.x.x], and [0.x.x.x], which seem
to be of marginal utility.

				Nagle