[157023] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Oct 3 17:10:20 2012
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:09:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <506C9D3D.8090301@dcrocker.net>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
> 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...
So the address space for IPv8 will be...
</troll>
Cheers,
-- jra
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