Agreed.
Thanks,
Acee
On 4/26/19, 1:52 AM, "netmod on behalf of Jeff Tantsura"
<netmod-boun...@ietf.org on behalf of jefftant.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
+1
Cheers,
Jeff
> On Apr 18, 2019, at 6:12 AM, Lou Berger <lber...@labn.net> wrote:
>
> Having worked with UIs that have the behavior of accepting an
address/prefix-len and mapping it to a prefix, (i.e., network/prefix-len and
zeroing out the non-significant bits) - some users really like it as they
don't have to do the transformation from address to network, notably for odd
length prefixes, while other users hate it as the system shows/does something
different than what they entered.
>
> In the end the current definition is what it is. If we want something
different we can define it. I personally think an address/prefix-len would be
useful, and would leave ip-prefix as is. (again just an individual's opinion.)
>
> Lou
>
>> On 4/18/2019 6:53 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 18 Apr 2019, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:43:05AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2001:db8::/64 and 2001:db8::1/64 are NOT the same if you use them.
>>> Why are they not the same if you define a prefix?
>> Because they're not. One of them is a valid prefix, the other one isn't.
>>
>>> +17.4 is not an integer, so this is an error (not because of the + but
>>> because of the . followed by additional digits). +17 is I think a valid
>>> integer value but the + will be dropped in the canonical representation.
>> Yes, but 2001:db8::1/64 isn't valid prefix (because the host portion of
>> the prefix isn't 0) so why should it be "rounded" when 17.4 shouldn't be
>> rounded if an integer input is expected?
>>
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