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Re: IPv6 Netowrk Device Numbering BP


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:06:29 +0000

On 01/11/2012 12:20, Masataka Ohta wrote:
We should better introduce partially decimal format for
IPv6 addresses or, better, avoid IPv6 entirely.

No we shouldn't.  Text representations of IPv6 addresses are already a
complete pain to parse.  We don't need to add to this pain by adding a new
format which gains us nothing in particular over existing schemas such as
that suggested by Eugeniu.

Nick



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