Tom,
On 2011-09-24 00:56, t.petch wrote:
...
>>>> That's nice (as long as your routers ignore the all zeros anycast address),
> but the question was: how do we write down IPv6 prefixes? Are we ok with
> simply
> leaving off the undefined part, or do we insist on proper inclusion of the
> zeros? If the former, how do we avoid ambiguity for prefixes such as
> ::ffff/96?
We can't, so all zeros have to be included, it's pretty obvious after this
discussion. So, a prefix is an address followed by /<length> and an address
is as documented in 5952.
Brian
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