17 Jun
2018
17 Jun
'18
6:15 p.m.
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