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RFC 1918 network range choices
- Subject: RFC 1918 network range choices
- From: jerry at jtcloe.net (Jerry Cloe)
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:32:19 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
Several years ago I remember seeing a mathematical justification for it, and I remember thinking at the time it made a lot of sense, but now I can't find it.
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I think the goal was to make it easier for routers to dump private ranges based on simple binary math, but not sure that concept ever got widely used.
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Time to start writing out all the binary.
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-----Original message-----
From:Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>
Sent:Thu 10-05-2017 09:41 am
Subject:RFC 1918 network range choices
To:North American Network Operatorsâ?? Group <nanog at nanog.org>;
Does anyone have a pointer to an *authoritative* source on why
10/8
172.16/12 and
192.168/16
were the ranges chosen to enshrine in the RFC? Â Came up elsewhere, and I can't
find a good citation either.
To list or I'll summarize.
Cheers,
-- jra
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