Re: [AVT] RTP: IPv6 examples for RTCP SDES CNAME

[Colin Perkins <csp@csperkins.org>]

--> Stephen Casner writes:
>At the suggestion of Peter Barany, I added explanation and examples of
>IPv6 address formats to the IPv4 cases that were already there for the
>format of the RTCP SDES CNAME item.  I expect these are not
>controversial.  Is this IPv6 address officially designated for use in
>document examples as 192.0.2.0/24 is for IPv4?  Use of a real address
>is generally not advised.
>
>                                                        -- Steve
>
>   For example, the standard ASCII
>   representation of an IP Version 4 address is "dotted decimal", also
>   known as dotted quad, and for IP Version 6, addresses are textually
>   represented as eight groups of four hexadecimal digits separated by
>   colons.  ...

I suspect this description is not sufficient, since formats like FF01::101
and ::13.1.68.3 are allowed by RFC 2373. We should probably reference that
definition directly.

Colin
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