[157010] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sadiq Saif)
Wed Oct 3 12:21:15 2012
In-Reply-To: <3BDE1550-5D07-46E9-A667-33C416E74FC6@ctcampbell.com>
From: Sadiq Saif <sadiq@asininetech.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:19:29 -0400
To: Chris Campbell <chris@ctcampbell.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Chris Campbell <chris@ctcampbell.com> wrote:
> Is anyone aware of any historical documentation relating to the choice of 32 bits for an IPv4 address?
>
> Cheers.
I believe the relevant RFC is RFC 791 - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791
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