Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-text-addr-representation-01.txt>

[Seiichi Kawamura <kawamucho at mesh.ad.jp>]

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Hi Alex

Thanks for your support and comments.
Please see inline.

Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
> I support it.
> 
> Half-substantive and half-editorial comments follow.
> 
> draft:
>> When the length of the
>>    consecutive 16 bit 0 fields are equal (i.e. 2001:db8:0:0:1:0:0:1),
>>    the former is shortened.
> 
> The "former" when reading it left-to-right western latin style?  Maybe
> better "The most significant if represented in network byte order"?  Or
> similar.

Yes, former as in western latin.

> 
> Is there any intention to suggest this choice of placement of :: to the
> IEEE Unix ("Austin Group") who standardizes what inet_pton and ntop do:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

Appendix A notes that inet_ntop (of FreeBSD7.0) follows Section 4.
Linux implementations that I checked works the same also, but
I've had a few people tell me some do not work this way.
I've not been able to confirm this, but in most cases
inet_ntop already does follow Sec4 placement of ::s

> 
> ?
> 
> Or at least add a reference in the draft about the inet_ntop and pton
> standardization documents, which are IEEE (outside of IETF).
> 
> Finally, is there some implementation prototyping in support of
> recommendation of section 4?  I think there may be already.

inet_ntop :-)
and ipv6calc works very nice too.

Regards,
Seiichi

> 
> Alex
> 
> Bob Hinden a écrit :
>> All,
>>
>> This message starts a 2-week 6MAN Working Group Last Call on advancing:
>>
>>
>>     Title           : A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text
>> Representation
>>     Author(s)       : S. Kawamura, M. Kawashima
>>     Filename        : draft-ietf-6man-text-addr-representation-01.txt
>>     Pages           : 14
>>     Date            : 2009-10-18
>>
>>
>> as a Proposed Standard.  Substantive comments and statements of
>> support for advancing this document should be directed to the mailing
>> list. Editorial suggestions can be sent to the document editor. 
> 
> Who is the document editor?
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
>  This last
>> call will end on November 5, 2009.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bob Hinden & Brian Haberman
>> 6MAN Chairs
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