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From: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 09:37:16AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> 
> And a major one from the very start of my career: the decision to remove the
> variable-length addresses from IPv3 and substitute the 32-bit addresses of
> IPv4.

Are you able to point to any document which still describes that variable length scheme?

I see that IEN 28 defines a variable length scheme (using version 2),
and that IEN 41 defines a different variable length scheme,
but is proposing to use version 4.

(IEN 44 looks a lot like the current IPv4).

DF