[SR-Users] ip address fields

Juha Heinanen jh at tutpro.com
Mon Oct 22 20:14:36 CEST 2012


Richard Fuchs writes:

> If you use 4-in-6 mapped format, omit zeroes compression and add square
> brackets, you get 47 characters:
> 
> [0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:123.123.123.123]

why would someone use such a format when there is canonical format
specified in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952?

in this rfc and in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address i was not
able to find anything about the format you gave example above.  where is
it specified?

-- juha



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