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From: barnett@vdsvax (Bruce G. Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: is there a need for class A addresses?
Message-ID: <5857@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 27 Oct 88 02:44:26 GMT
References: <8810241542.AA07439@KAUAI.MCL.UNISYS.COM>
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Reply-To: barnett@vdsvax (Bruce G. Barnett)
Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY
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In-reply-to: jose@MCL.UNISYS.COM (Jose Rodriguez)

In article <8810241542.AA07439@KAUAI.MCL.UNISYS.COM>, jose@MCL (Jose Rodriguez) writes:
>Is there a need for class A addresses?

Well, If you expect to have the number of machines a company like GE 
expects, there is some advantage to getting a single block of numbers
and assigning the network numbers from one organization.

Having dozens of divisions of GE requesting their own class C and B networks
seems much more inefficient. Especially when many sites have little experience
with the internet.