RFC 1518 · HISTORIC · 1993
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDR
Overview
RFC 1518, “An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDR”, is a Historic document published in September 1993 by Y. Rekhter, T. Li. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This paper provides an architecture and a plan for allocating IP addresses in the Internet. This architecture and the plan are intended to play an important role in steering the Internet towards the Address Assignment and Aggregating Strategy. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Historic” means
A specification that has been superseded or is otherwise no longer recommended for use.
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