[157698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Netowrk Device Numbering BP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker (fred))
Sat Nov 3 16:44:46 2012
From: "Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 20:44:19 +0000
In-Reply-To: <5092690D.8000500@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 1, 2012, at 8:20 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> We should better introduce partially decimal format for
> IPv6 addresses or, better, avoid IPv6 entirely.
With respect, it is already possible to use the decimal subset if you wish.=
For example, you could write
2001:dba::192:168:2:1
It wouldn't be very dense, but EID density wasn't the objective.=
