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
Sadiq Saif <sa...@asininetech.com> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Chris Campbell <ch...@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 > >-- >Sadiq S >O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org