17 Jun
2018
17 Jun
'18
8:36 p.m.
From: Derek Fawcus
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)
That's the one; Version 2 of IP, but it was for Version 3 of TCP (described
here: IEN-21, Cerf, "TCP 3 Specification", Jan-78 ).
and that IEN 41 defines a different variable length
scheme, but is
proposing to use version 4.
Right, that's a draft only (no code ever written for it), from just before the
meeting that substituted 32-bit addresses.
(IEN 44 looks a lot like the current IPv4).
Because it _is_ the current IPv4 (well, modulo the class A/B/C addressing
stuff). :-)
Noel