[157012] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mos)
Wed Oct 3 12:53:19 2012
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:52:57 +0200
From: Seth Mos <seth.mos@dds.nl>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <925f3087-c201-4e51-8931-932e0fd8e177@email.android.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Op 3-10-2012 18:33, Kevin Broderick schreef:
> I'll add that in the mid-90's, in a University Of Washington lecture hall, Vint Cerf expressed some regret over going with 32 bits. Chuckle worthy and at the time, and a fond memory
> - K
"Pick a number between this and that." It's the 80's and you can still
count the computers in the world. :)
It is/was a "experiment" and you have the choice between a really large
and a larger number. Humans are not too good in comparing really large
numbers. If it was ever decided to use a smaller value, for the size of
the experiment it might have went quite different. The "safe" (larger)
choice ended up bringing more pain.
As a time honored ritual, the temporary solution becomes the production
solution.
Oops... And that was not quite what Mr Cerf meant to do.
Regards,
Seth
