Clarification with IPV6 and previous

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Thu Jun 19 08:09:32 EDT 2003


I don't recall who made the decision to make IPV6 128 bits rather than
64 bits. But the reason had to do with address space partitioning. We
had Jim Bound here a few years ago who explained this. 

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