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Quote by Jon Postel
One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address – 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small. – Jon Postel

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