On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:18:43AM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Surely we can never hope to eliminate the need for converting to a
> a canonical form before comparing. The canonical form for machine
> comparisons is fairly obvious - a 128 bit binary number. The question
> seems to be whether
> -Original Message-
> From: Pekka Savola [mailto:pek...@netcore.fi]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:31 PM
> To: Juergen Schoenwaelder
> Cc: Dan Wing;
> draft-ietf-6man-text-addr-representat...@tools.ietf.org;
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> Subject: Re: AD review of draft-ietf-6m
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
1) Mandate that the text representation is
and never changes after this.
2) Mandate that the text representation is
but take into account new WKPs.
3) Mandate that the text representation is
but require that external mechanis
On 2010-01-07 13:21, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 05:35:21PM +0100, Dan Wing wrote:
>
>>> My main interest is textual comparability of addresses coming from
>>> potentially many different sources. If I can compare addresses safely
>>> only if I know some context informati
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I guess it comes down to either (2) or (3),
but I'm slightly uncomfortable with the word "require" in (3).
What I personally like, is
the text representation is , take into account new WKPs.
Also suggest that tools might help if they had the option t
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 05:35:21PM +0100, Dan Wing wrote:
> > My main interest is textual comparability of addresses coming from
> > potentially many different sources. If I can compare addresses safely
> > only if I know some context information communicated out of band or I
> > have to configure
> > Regarding your #4, I do not believe we are ready to specify
> a mandatory
> way
> > to
> > learn a network translator's prefix. And I say that as author of
> > draft-wing-behave-learn-prefix (which proposes using DHCPv6
> and DNS) and
> my
> > awareness of draft-bcx-behave-learn-address (whi
> -Original Message-
> From: Juergen Schoenwaelder
> [mailto:j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 11:08 PM
> To: Dan Wing
> Cc: 'Jari Arkko';
> draft-ietf-6man-text-addr-representat...@tools.ietf.org;
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> Subject: Re: AD rev
