[157013] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Wed Oct 3 13:17:49 2012
To: Chris Campbell <chris@ctcampbell.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:17:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3BDE1550-5D07-46E9-A667-33C416E74FC6@ctcampbell.com> (Chris
Campbell's message of "Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:13:54 +0100")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Chris Campbell <chris@ctcampbell.com> writes:
> Is anyone aware of any historical documentation relating to the choice of 32 bits for an IPv4 address?
>
> Cheers.
8 bit host identifiers had proven to be too short... :)
-r
