On Sep 30, 2015, at 9:00 PM, Evan Huus <eapa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> A pure netmask (without an associated address) is representable as
> just a UINT8. Would it be terrible to write `protocolXYZ.netmask ==
> 24`?

Some are sent over the wire as a 32-bit mask, which could, conceivably, have 
holes in the middle.
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