[ih] Some Questions over IPv4 Ownership

[randy at psg.com (Randy Bush)]

> Pure serendipity. The basic mechanism used (the bit-mask) allowed
> non-continguous masks as a natural consequence of the mechanism; we would
> have had to specifically disallow them, and we didn't bother to. I seem to
> recall we thought we'd leave them in, and see if people found some good use
> for them.

paul tsuchiya's still unfindable campei non-contiguous subnet mask
architecture c. 1992

randy