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/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
