On 20/09/2011, at 9:19 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> My position is that prefixes should always end in :: so the address part is a 
> valid address and the same code can be used to parse addresses, prefixes and 
> addresses with a prefix length.

Agreed. Shortening IPv4 addresses to things like 10/8 makes sense because we 
don't have another way to do shortening. If we did (i.e. 10../8 or something) 
then we'd use that.

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Nathan Ward

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