19 May
1995
19 May
'95
10:03 a.m.
Why /18? Is there reasoning or research behind this choice?
I'm not sure if there was any analytical justification (not sure how you'd go about doing that with any sort of reality). I believe it was a compromise between the people who wanted /14 and /16 and the people who wanted /19 or /24.
In Danvers I believe the metric "implemented hosts per routing table entry" was mentioned.
Measured how? Regards, -drc