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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:45:26 +0100
Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:30:04AM +0100, Manuel Valente wrote:
> > Discussion: There are already a few modules which allow IP address
> > manipulation and calculus - Net::IPv4Addr and NetAddr::IP are two such
> > modules. At RIPE-NCC, we felt that these modules did not cover all the
> > functionality that we needed for manipulation of IP addresses. More
> > importantly, none of these modules allowed manipulation of IPv6
> > addresses. The Net::IP module tries to answer to these problems and also
> > include the functionality present in the other modules.
>
> If address manipulation is the purpose of the module, wouldn't Net::IPaddr
> or Net::IPv6Addr be a better name?
Not Net::Ipv6Addr - because it deals with IPv6 _and_ IPv4.
Net::IPaddr: why not ? But this might create a confusion with the already existing
modules.
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Manuel Valente - RIPE NCC
