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Hello appletalker, I have a simple question to ask concerning
appletalk zones. I hope this has not been asked before.

In Inside Appletalk Book, zone is defined as: (p.7-10)
	"An arbitrary subset of nodes within an internet. A particular network
can obtain nodes belonging to any number of zones ( although all nodes
in a non extended network must belong to the same zone). A particular
node belongs to only one zone. The union of all zone is the internet.
A zone is identified by a string of no more than 32 characters.
	The concept of zones is provided to establish departmental or
other user-understandable groupings of the entities of the internet.
Zones are intelligible only to NBP and to the related Zones
Information Protocol (ZIP)."

Let say I have 30 macs on Ethertalk and 3 Fastpath and 30 macs on localtalk.
If I were to group these Macs, will it be advantages for me to:

1. group the Macs to 1 zones and 4 networks ?  and why so ?

2. group the Macs to 4 zones and 4 networks - 1 ethertalk zone (30
   macs) , 3 localtalk  zones (10 macs each) and  group the macs to the
   specific net they  belong to. ? and why so ?

3. group the macs to the specific groups/department they belong to and
   create 20 zones and 4 networks ? and  why so ?

Hanz  Makmur
Rutgers University