AS> Well. So why our IC's (whoever they are) ignore this question.

   Then you've obviously missed a zillion of comments. The zone idea was a
bad idea from day one. It had absolutely no technical reason, only
political. FTN has always had the possibility to house at least 32.000 nets
with 32.000 nodes in each -- and that's with sloppy programmers that cannot
deal with words but only with signed integers.

   That's about as many possible node numbers as the number of possible IP
numbers on the internet, so there never was any technical need for a third
dimension, aka zone numbers.

   Now that we can easily scrap the entire concept of zone numbers, surely
you can understand that we don't want to introduce a NEW zone?

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