[ih] The history of "This" 0.0.0.0/8 network?

[agmalis at gmail.com (Andrew G. Malis)]

Dave,

>From RFC 791: "A value of zero in the network field means this network.".

Cheers,
Andy


On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 3:37 PM Dave Taht <dave at taht.net> wrote:

>
> Brian Carpenter just turned me onto this list. As part of an upcoming
> internet draft, I'd wanted to be able to coherently discuss the origin
> and original use cases of the "this" network "0" in Arpanet to early
> ipv4 transition days, and thus far I haven't found much information on
> it.
>
> I'm curious if there is a reference on it somewhere?
>
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