8. Transition to a Long-Term Solution
- Transition to a Long-Term Solution
CIDR was designed to be a short-term solution to the problems of
routing state and address depletion on the IPv4 Internet. It does
not change the fundamental Internet routing or addressing
architectures. It is not expected to affect any plans for transition
to a more long-term solution except, perhaps, by delaying the urgency
of developing such a solution.