[132424] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Hartmann)
Mon Nov 22 17:28:30 2010
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From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:24:36 +0100
To: Daniel Hagerty <hag@linnaean.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 18:33, Daniel Hagerty <hag@linnaean.org> wrote:
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0Ambiguating usages like "Take the least signifigant quad of =
that
> ipv6 address" to mean either 16 bits or 64 bits, when it currently is
> unamibigously 64 bits won't make the lives of C/C++ programmers
> writing IPv6 code any easier.
Agreed.
Thanks a lot for pointing this out. Comments like this are incredibly
valuable to me. I think I will still add quad to -03 as it has been
requested a lot of times, but more to point out and document that
there is a significant problem with it than anything else.
Thanks again,
Richard
