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From: "Michael Kjörling" <michael@kjorling.se>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] conventions around zero padding in ip4
Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 14:54:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3181114-7c21-4bcf-8e60-e29f87575795@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220507194336.DC70918C075@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

On 7 May 2022 15:43 -0400, from jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa):
> PS: The A/B/C addresses are actually a moderately late stage of IP
> addresses. At the very start, they were all '8 bits network numbers, and 24
> bits of 'rest''.

Looks like that happened in 1978 or thereabouts?

https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien46.txt

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-08 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-07 19:43 Noel Chiappa
2022-05-08 14:54 ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-05-09 16:14 Noel Chiappa
2022-05-07 16:14 ron minnich
2022-05-07 16:38 ` Bakul Shah
2022-05-07 16:48 ` Erik E. Fair
2022-05-07 18:49 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-05-07 19:14 ` Warner Losh
2022-05-07 19:50   ` ron minnich
2022-05-07 19:57     ` ron minnich
2022-05-07 23:19   ` Bakul Shah
2022-05-07 23:49     ` Warner Losh
2022-05-08 10:28     ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-05-08  5:21 ` jason-tuhs
2022-05-08 10:22 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-05-09 14:08   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-05-10 10:49     ` Ralph Corderoy

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