[771] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: IETF questions -- Internet growth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Templeton)
Thu May 30 00:12:47 1991
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Wed, 29 May 91 22:55:15 EDT
From: Brad Templeton <brad@looking.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <9105292111.AA01562@arthur.uchicago.edu>; from "francis@zaphod" at May 29, 91 4:11 pm
I have gotten laughed at when I asked the question about numbers running
out before.
It is *not* a stupid question, and those who laugh have shown they don't
think so far ahead.
There are only, what, 16,384 class B networks available, right? And I
feel confident there are a lot more than that many companies in the world
with a need for more than 256 nodes on their net. Problem is that
everybody seems to want class B. I can imagine that many small firms
would like to have class B, because we're talking about a world where not
just your workstation has an address, but your toaster. We will be forced
to hide addresses from the world -- it is doubtful that your toaster needs
to be accessed by other toasters in Swaziland. But is this enough?
Even dividing up the class As which have gone to networks into further Bs
and Cs is not enough.
So no, 2^32 numbers is not enough.
