Good news. The IESG discussion of this document raised no major issues. One point that was discussed, however, was related to whether :: means "1 or more" occurances of zero vs. "2 or more", when used in an IPv6 literal address. The document currently says:
> 2. Due to some methods of allocating certain styles of IPv6 > addresses, it will be common for addresses to contain long strings > of zero bits. In order to make writing addresses containing zero > bits easier a special syntax is available to compress the zeros. > The use of "::" indicates multiple groups of 16 bits of zeros. > The "::" can only appear once in an address. The "::" can also be > used to compress the leading and/or trailing zeros in an address. It turns out that an unscientific survey (one AD who got bitten once and recalled not understanding what was wrong with the address being typed in and another that then checked their implementation) at least two implementation happen to implement this differently. I.e., on one parser an address with :: denoting one occurance of zeros was accepted, on the other it was rejected. It would be good for the WG to clarify what meaning should be implemented, and then clarify the document. Once that is done, I expect the IESG to approve the document. Some other nits to fold in: > Minor nit. The first reference to EUI-64 should contain a reference. > this document does not say anywhere that it obsoletes > RFC 2373 - nor does the protocol action Thomas -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
