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Subject: Re: Running out of Internet addresses?
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Date: 28 Nov 88 23:47:00 GMT
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New versions of anything are always tricky. I'd like to hear from
some LAN analyzer vendors how they feel about variable versus
fixed length addressing; ditto the IP and TCP level programmers.
This was a point of very active debate in 1979 when we froze on
the 32 bit choice instead of variable length.

I have the awful feeling I am about to ignite a new blizzard of
mail, worse than the worm, but the subject is important and we need
to start working through the problems and choices, in my view.

Vint