Subject: Re: IANA blog article

From: [email-masked] (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 08:43:46 -0500 (EST)

> From: John C Klensin <[email-masked]>

Minor historical aside:

    > Remember that the most important single protocol value space we have is
    > one that we've gotten wrong (at least) three times
    > ...
    >   -- We will never need more than 254 hosts.
    >   -- We can expand that a bit by using an IMP number/ host
    >           number pair.
    >   -- A 32-bit range will always be enough,

Actually (ironically), technically the so-called 'long IMP leader' had the
exact same number of address bits as IPv4 (i.e. 32 bits). (There was an 8-bit
'network number' field, althought it was never used.) See:

  http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpapkt.html

	Noel