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... IANA and the IR will reserve the upper half of this space which
corresponds to the IP address range of 208.0.0.0 through
223.255.255.255. Network ...
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The exhaustion of the IP address space is a topic of concern for the
entire Internet community. This plan for the assignment of Class ...
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For instance, an European organization which requires fewer than 2048
unique IP addresses and more than 1024 would be assigned 8 contiguous
class C network ...
... networks, 194.0.0.0 - 195.255.255.255. If an organization from
Central America required fewer than 512 unique IP addresses and more
than 256, it would receive 2 contiguous class C network ...
... If a subscriber has a requirement for more than 4096 unique IP
addresses it could conceivably receive a Class B network number.
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... management of the current IP network number
space only profess to delay depletion of the IP address space, not to
postpone it indefinitely.
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... Solensky, F., and F. Kastenholz, "A Revision to IP Address Classifications", Work in Progress, March 1992. ...
... Rekhter, Y., and Li, T., "Guidelines for IP Address Allocation", Work in Progress, August 1992. ...