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RFC 1918 network range choices

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sat Oct 7 14:07:55 2017

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 14:40:57 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Does anyone have a pointer to an *authoritative* source on why

10/8
172.16/12 and
192.168/16 

were the ranges chosen to enshrine in the RFC?  Came up elsewhere, and I can't 
find a good citation either.

To list or I'll summarize.

Cheers,
-- jra
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