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From: BILLW@MATHOM.CISCO.COM (William Westfield)
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Subject: Re: is there a need for class A addresses?
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Date: 25 Oct 88 00:55:51 GMT
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In retrospect, the division points between class A, B, and C networks
are in the wrong places (class C newtorks are too small, class A
newtorks are too large).  However, it made the numbers easy to read in
dotted syntax, and was not too bad for a shot in the dark...  The
current directions of networking seem to imply that class A was always
too big, but back then it might have been reasonable to expect that
AT&T, for example, would want use class A addresses for each of its
telephones...

Bill Westfield
cisco Systems.
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