Hi, as mentioned before applications do use binding to any IPv6 address to listen any iPv4 address. I have seen it in Linux Fedora Core 3. This helps with porting applications. I don't know why people are calling it "broken". It is all about semantics and definitions. I believe that dropping this section will create confusion and chaos for the already ported applications. It will be much wiser leaving things as they are and allowing the application to bind to only one socket for both IPv4 and IPv6 if they wish.
Thanks, Shuki I -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Hinden Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:49 AM To: IPv6 WG Subject: IPv6 Address Architecture update question Hi, I am working on an update to the IPv6 address architecture. In doing this I am working through the comments on the previous draft. One comment made was to remove Section 2.5.5 "IPv6 Addresses with Embedded IPv4 Addresses" from the document. This would include removing the special case in the textual representation (section 2.2, 3.). I would like to solicit the working group's thoughts on this. I don't have a strong opinion one way or another. It's not clear it has ever been that useful and add a certain degree of complexity. On the other hand, it appears in several places in the document and requires some careful editing :-) Since I expect this is widely implemented, please be sure to report any problem that might occur if this is to be removed from the specification. This includes would it break other documents that refer to the IPv6 address architecture specification. The plan is to submit the updated draft for Draft Standard. In general removing things that are not found to be useful is OK when going to Draft standard. Thanks, Bob -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
