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Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Paul Morrison)
Thu Mar 7 03:28:41 1996
From: John Paul Morrison <John.Paul.Morrison@multiactive.com>
To: Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de (Martin Kraemer)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:36:52 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Dan.Merillat@ao.net, ken@syd.dit.csiro.au, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199603060832.AA01658@deejai.mch.sni.de> from "Martin Kraemer" at Mar 6, 96 09:32:36 am
>
> Dan Merillat wrote,...
> >
> > Of course, since it's hex, we can pick cool ip addresses:
> >
> > ACAD:ACE:......
> > ^^^^ 0 padded....
> >
> > or DAD:ADD:AFEC::BAD:DAD:CAD:DEAD
> >
> > Looks valid here. :-)
>
> I still don't know why they chose colons. Commands that rely on the colon
> to separate host-name (or -address) from path-on-host will break.
> Well, most programs will break, anyway.
Ethernet addresses are often written in hex with colons, maybe that's
where they got the idea.
Anyway, people don't (normally) send email to addresses (either
coloned hex or dotted quad). They will still send mail to names in IPv6
not numbers.
>
> Martin
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