Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!A.ISI.EDU!CERF From: CERF@A.ISI.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Running out of Internet addresses? Message-ID: <[A.ISI.EDU]28-Nov-88.18:47:32.CERF> Date: 28 Nov 88 23:47:00 GMT References: <8811282038.AA15464@vax.ftp.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 12 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