Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!MITRE.ARPA!mckee From: mckee@MITRE.ARPA (H. Craig McKee) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Running out of Internet addresses? Message-ID: <8812071832.AA18756@mitre.arpa> Date: 7 Dec 88 18:32:08 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The MITRE Corp., Washington, D.C. Lines: 12 >In my opinion we should face this issue squarely and right now. A statement >like: in the future the Internet may be forced to adopt variable-length ^^^^^^ ^^^ Dave/Vint/et al - We should be more definite than that, I suggest: During the next five years, the Internet IAB will require a transition to the use of variable-length addressing as described in RFC 1008. Host and gateway implementors should begin development of appropriate header-parsing algorithms and data structures. Regards - Craig (standard disclaimer)