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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:09:37PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> Is there any reason for not using CIDR like schemes as Al Viro
> proposed a long time back (I think it was Al anyway). That also
> sorts out the auditing problem

Some of of CIDR approach seems extremely elegant and reasonable
scalable to me...  look how far the (relatively) poorly managed
Internet-address space has gotten with similar ideas...


  --cw
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