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Re: TECH-OMISSION (-protocol): Partial IPs with CIDRs allowed?

2004-09-07 19:02:13

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 05:47:22PM -0700, Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:
| 
|       Is it OK to write 1.2.3/24, or MUST I write 1.2.3.0/24? It would be
| easier for implementation if the second form was required.
| 
|       My apologies if this has already been mentioned or discussed elsewhere.
| 

I have the feeling that people are going to write the first
form, so we might as well require implementations to support
it.  As long as it's not ambiguous, lazy is okay.

Similarly "ipv4" and "ipv6" being synonyms for "ip4" and
"ip6", and "a:1.2.3.4" being interpreted as "ip4:1.2.3.4".
That seems to happen rather often.