IPv4 address length technical design

Sadiq Saif sadiq at asininetech.com
Wed Oct 3 16:19:29 UTC 2012


On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Chris Campbell <chris at 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

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