[157641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Netowrk Device Numbering BP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sander Steffann)
Thu Nov 1 10:27:57 2012
From: Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl>
In-Reply-To: <B054B0DE-9D2F-4AD1-BE75-2DE89CA0A1B8@delong.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 15:27:05 +0100
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi Owen,
> You really shouldn't need to parse these and it's perfectly valid to =
reject them as invalid input. This really is an output only format [...]
I don't agree. I think it's actually the other way around. It's a valid =
representation of an IPv6 address so you be able to parse them. You =
don't need to be able to output them though.
> Finally, at this point, if you're feeling like you have to write your =
own IP address parser, you're probably doing something wrong. PLEASE =
PLEASE PLEASE use the standard
> libraries whenever possible.
Definitely +1 here!
Sander
