I think SIIT communication using v4-mapped addresses should be represented
as InetAddressType ipv6(2), and InetAddress of ::ffff:x.y.z.q .

>What is the relationship between a zone index and an IPv4-mapped IPv6
>address? Thanks!

I think that some implementations provide the zone concept for IPv4
communication, but no sin_scope_id in the sockaddr_in; thus the way to
provide zone info is to use AF_INET6 sockets and IPv4-mapped addresses
to communicate via IPv4 on the wire.  However, since the address family
in the MIB is supposed to reflect the address family on the wire, ipv4z
is required to represent the zone info when performing this trick.

(The zone concept is useful in v4 in some of the same ways as in v6, e.g.
two different zones both using 10.0.1/24)

  Bill
--------------------------------------------------------------------
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]
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Reply via email to