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

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Jack Haverty

    > There were several different classes of IP address

That was later, after the rise of LANs. Originally (back when there were
mostly WANs), there was only what was later named class A.

    > The unsolved problem (at the time) was how to deal with networks that
    > had addresses too big to fit in IP addresses, and that also did not have
    > any broadcast capability.

That led to all sorts of contortions, including Roki's 'super-netting' (I
think it was called), which (much) later re-appeared as CIDR.

    > That led to DHCP.

Again, _much_ later.

       Noel