Dirk, Erik, I agree. The IPv4-mapped Ipv6 address does not need to contain a global IPv4 address.
Thanks, Bob At 01:10 AM 11/14/2001, Erik Nordmark wrote: > > 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] >-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
