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RE: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser () seven com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:14:14 -0800
An option w/ movable separators: 260:abc:1234:9876:fe::1 Actual IPv6 standard (and also allowed w/ movable separators): 260a:bc12:3498:76fe::1
The problem with movable separators is in handling zeros. If the separators are a known distance apart, zeros can be deduced. The example above has only one zero. Imagine it were a different address: 260a:0:8:65::1 Now with movable separators the the zeros would be explicit because you don't know how far apart the colons are n the address. In your example, it would become: 260:a00:0000:0800:65::1 because there is no way to tell from a movable colon address how many places the colon was moved and how many zeros there are between them. You can move colons as long as zeros are explicit but you must have fixed colons if zeros are implicit. Otherwise there is no way to deduce where the zeros go from simply parsing the address.
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- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming, (continued)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming William Herrin (Nov 22)
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- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Owen DeLong (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Joel Jaeggli (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming William Herrin (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Owen DeLong (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Nick Hilliard (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Joel Jaeggli (Nov 22)
- RE: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming George Bonser (Nov 22)
- RE: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming kmedcalf () dessus com (Nov 26)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Owen DeLong (Nov 26)
- Conclusions? - Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Joel Jaeggli (Nov 29)
- Re: Conclusions? - Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Doug Barton (Nov 29)
- Re: [v6ops] Conclusions? - Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 30)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Jeff Aitken (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Daniel Hagerty (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 22)