Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP

["John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

> > 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.

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