[TUHS] conventions around zero padding in ip4

[Michael Kjörling]

On 7 May 2022 15:43 -0400, from jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa):
> PS: The A/B/C addresses are actually a moderately late stage of IP
> addresses. At the very start, they were all '8 bits network numbers, and 24
> bits of 'rest''.

Looks like that happened in 1978 or thereabouts?

https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien46.txt

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