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| publisher = [[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]]

| access-date = 2014-01-08

}}</ref> As a result, some organizations involved in the early development of the Internet received address space allocations far larger than they would ever need (2,147,483,648 IP addresses each!). It became clear early in the growth of the network that this would be a critical [[scalability]] limitation.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

==Introduction of address classes==