3 Oct
2012
3 Oct
'12
7:10 p.m.
On Oct 3, 2012, at 4:17 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net> wrote:
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/
Didn't work for DecNet Phase III, Decnet Phase IV, Decnet Phase V (8, 16, 128).