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Subject: Re: [9fans] Ligatures
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 03:07:40 +0200
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> generally, people don't like that. integers between 0 and 2**32 being a
> limited supply

no, they are not.  there are only some 6 billion people on the planet:

    http://opr.princeton.edu/popclock

of which a lot of those are chinese who have vicious censorship on IP feeds.
you can kick in india too, so that cuts it down a bit further.

handing out blocks to organisations who then delegate using the various
reserved nets for private networks conserves a lot of them.  i don't recall
the RFC, but it specifies them.