3 Oct
2012
3 Oct
'12
8:17 p.m.
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/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net