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Re: IPv4 address length technical design
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2 () dcrocker net>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:17:01 -0700
Is anyone aware of any historical documentation relating to the choice of 32bits for an IPv4 address?
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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
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