Re: minimum IPv6 announcement size

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
> > > sounds just like folks in 1985, talking about IPv4...
> > The foundation of that, though, was ignorance of address space
> > exhaustion.
>
> no.  ipv4 was the second time, not the first

Hi Randy,

The first time they had 256 addresses (8 bits) right? That's where the
original /8 assignments in IPv4 came from, the folks listed back in
RFC 758 who had an IP address before IPv4. IPv4 jumped from 8 bits to
32 bits. Which when you think about it is the same ratio as jumping
from 32 bits to 128 bits.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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