> I have another comment/question (bit late, but I thought I could better > mention it before people reissue the draft): > > Section 2.5.5 says: > "A second type of IPv6 address which holds an embedded global IPv4 > address is also defined. This address type is used to represent the > addresses of IPv4 nodes as IPv6 addresses. This type of address is > termed an "IPv4-mapped IPv6 address" and ... > > Why is the definition of ipv4-mapped restricted to global ipv4 > addresses?
The implementations I know have no way to tell whether the IPv4 address returned by the DNS is a global IPv4 address or something else. So in the API the IPv4-mapped addresses are used to carry any IPv4 address. I think it is sufficient to drop the "global" in the text above to clean this up. Erik -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
