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. -- Nathan Ward -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------