[157638] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Netowrk Device Numbering BP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Thu Nov 1 09:07:38 2012
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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:06:29 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: <5092690D.8000500@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 01/11/2012 12:20, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> We should better introduce partially decimal format for
> IPv6 addresses or, better, avoid IPv6 entirely.
No we shouldn't. Text representations of IPv6 addresses are already a
complete pain to parse. We don't need to add to this pain by adding a new
format which gains us nothing in particular over existing schemas such as
that suggested by Eugeniu.
Nick
