[170433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Thu Mar 27 10:44:56 2014
Date: 27 Mar 2014 10:17:35 -0400
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Tony Finch" <dot@dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1403271340460.31260@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> mailbox@[IPv6:2001:12:34:56::78:ab:cd]
>
> You aren't allowed to use :: to abbreviate one zero hexadectet according
> to RFC 5952.
>
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?eid=2467
Oh, look at that. I wonder how many people realized that it made an
incompatible change to RFC 4291 four years ago. I certainly didn't. I
wonder what problem they thought they were solving.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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