On 2/7/11 4:46 PM, "Jeffrey Hutzelman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>if you'd like a literal mapping of the colon-separated octet-sets to >> array elements, you'd be suggesting the array IPv6Shorts in this >> proposal. that's fine with me too. > >Treat it as an opaque vector. An IPv6 address is not actually an array >of >16- or 32-bit integers, and treating it that way means you're going to >have >to jump through hoops to get the byte order right when local byte order >is >not the same as network order. Better to just treat the whole thing as >an >opaque bitstring, which is what it is. That was what I was struggling to say, but badly expressing. Much better words. > _______________________________________________ AFS3-standardization mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization
