Why did the IETF specifically choose 192.168/16 to be a private IP address class?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/784978/w...

Question links:
[Internet Engineering Task Force]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_E...

Accepted answer links:
[RFCs]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_fo...
[1969]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1
[is currently]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6890
[has always been]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1174
[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_A...
[from 1972]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc322
[his death in 1998]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2468
[Jon Postel]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
[czar of socket numbers]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc433
[necessary task he took on himself]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc349
[opened to public commerce]: http://merit.edu/research/nsfnet_article...
[Internet Registry]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1466
[expanded]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2050
[distributed collection of registries]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7020
[RFC 1166]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1166
[RFC 1117]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1117
[RFC 1918]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1918
[RFC 1597]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1597
[RFC 1627]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1627
[usual]: http://www.rfc-editor.org/pubprocess.htm...
[Internet-Drafts]: http://www.ietf.org/id-info/
[who was also RFC editor at the time]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2555
[defunct]: http://www.larryblakeley.com/requiem_for...
[shut down in 1990]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1208
[in 1992]: http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;handl
[one remembrance]: http://www.isoc.org/postel/condolences.s...

Answer 2 links:
[IPv4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4
[UART]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_a...

Answer 3 links:
[primordial Internet]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
[ARPANET]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

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