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IPv4 address length technical design
- Subject: IPv4 address length technical design
- From: dhc2 at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:17:01 -0700
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]> <CABSLv--2C_Y8XR4NJ21kbg8vv1E4Pkmhg=rZHEUxvS-YEP5p=w@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
>>> Is anyone aware of any historical documentation relating to the
>>> choice of 32
>> bits for an IPv4 address?
...
> Actually that was preceded by RFC 760, which in turn was a derivative
> of IEN 123. I believe the answer to the original question is
...
My theory is that there is a meta-rule to make new address spaces have 4
times as many bits as the previous generation.
We have three data points to establish this for the Internet, and that's
the minimum needed to run a correlation: Arpanet, IPv4, IPv6...
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net