-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Its 9:00am in the morning in Tokyo (my excuss for the late response) and thanks to everyone for their comments. I really have to appologise for the misuse of the AUTH48.
While most people would think that the original text is good enough (at least that's what we agreed on at first), I understand that the question that was asked by Brett may be asked by others. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipv6/current/msg11684.html I guess the question is, would an erratum be sufficient to address this? Regards, Seiichi Bob Hinden wrote: > Seiichi, > > These changes are out of scope for an AUTH48 change. AUTH48 is only to > verify the edits that the RFC-Editor performed and for other editorial > changes. > > If you really think these changes are very important, then the document would > need to come back to the working group and restart the process. Given the > comments on the list, I wouldn't advise that. It would mean another working > group last call, AD review, IETF last call, IESG review, directorate reviews, > RFC-Editor edit pass, etc. > > Bob > > > > On Aug 4, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Seiichi Kawamura wrote: > > Hi > > This already came up on the list once before, > and since its in AUTH48 now, I would like to > make the changes to the document. > > Current section 4.2 has 3 parts, and the first two are > > 4.2.1. Shorten as Much as Possible > > The use of the symbol "::" MUST be used to its maximum capability. > For example, 2001:db8::0:1 is not acceptable, because the symbol "::" > could have been used to produce a shorter representation 2001:db8::1. > > 4.2.2. Handling One 16-Bit 0 Field > > The symbol "::" MUST NOT be used to shorten just one 16-bit 0 field. > For example, the representation 2001:db8:0:1:1:1:1:1 is correct, but > 2001:db8::1:1:1:1:1 is not correct. > > I would like to combine these two, and also clarify that you MUST > use "::" when there are more then two consecutive 0 fields. > The following is the text I plan to use. > > 4.2.1. When to use "::" > > If the address contains at least two consecutive 16-bit 0 fields, "::" > MUST be used to compress all consecutive 16-bit 0 fields. > The symbol "::" MUST NOT be used to shorten just one 16-bit 0 field. > For example, the representation 2001:db8:0:1:1:1:1:1 is correct, but > 2001:db8::1:1:1:1:1 is not correct. > > Please let me know by Aug 6, 2010 if you have any objections to this. > > Thanks and Regards, > Seiichi - -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkxaCDoACgkQcrhTYfxyMkKw2ACfa1SpOPuAsvMWJ5g8GfpeyTFD M44AmgP75HAZVogMUcxbjAQtGmed7qrj =JcH7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
