@alcinnz @ajroach42 (Dr. Marshall) Kirk McKusick is on record from MeetBSD 2014 that if he had a time machine, he would go back and make IPv4/48-bit addressing the winner (this was apparently prototyped as IPv3):

youtube.com/watch?v=DEEr6dT-4u

Also with context about how NCP had 8-bit addressing.

Berkeley apparently always advocated for 48bit IP addresses, but they lost that debate. ;(

#meetbsd #meetbsd2014 #kirkmckusick #ipv4 #ipv3 #48bit #ncp #arpanet #csrg #bsd #computerhistory #timemachine #ipv6 #8bit #16bit #32bit

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