On Mon, 25 Oct 2021, 04:18 Eliot Lear, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 24.10.21 17:36, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > The issue is a good deal deeper than just debugging. As long as > > there's an option to specify a variable length parameter without being > > able to specify the length in the protocol, then the protocol is > > fundamentally ambiguous and its interpretation is entirely context > > dependent. > > You mean, like a subnet mask? >
Subnet masks weren't a good idea either. They, like classes and CIDR, are hacks to squeeze more addresses out of the 32 bit IPv4 address space. Have a look at the IPv4 address structure in RFC760. Couldn't be simpler. > > _______________________________________________ > spring mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/spring >
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