[SR-Users] ip address fields

[Richard Fuchs]

On 10/22/12 14:14, Juha Heinanen wrote:
> 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?

I don't know why, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

> 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?

Under "dotted-quad notation", minus "leading zeroes" and minus "groups
of zeroes" (note the little word "may" in both of these sections), plus
"Literal IPv6 addresses in network resource identifiers".

cheers

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