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 | | Class-C, with a maximum of 254 host addresses, is too small, while class-B, which allows up to 65534 addresses, is too large to be densely populated. |
 | | It does not attempt to solve the third problem, which is of a more long-term nature, but instead endeavors to ease enough of the short to mid-term difficulties to allow the Internet to continue to function efficiently while progress is made on a longer- term solution. |
 | | In addition to these two documents, "Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space" [4] provides specific recommendations for assigning IP addresses that are consistent with [2] and [3], and "Status of CIDR Deployment in the Internet" [5] describes the timetable for deploying [4] in the Internet. |
| www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc1517.txt (903 words) |
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