Re: IPv4 address length technical design

[Cutler James R <james.cutler () consultant com>]

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).