[AFS3-std] Encoding IPvN addresses (was Re: first draft: ubik update proposal)

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:08 PM, David Boyes <dboyes@sinenomine.net> wrote:
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> On 2/7/11 3:02 PM, "Chaskiel Grundman" <cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
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>>> enum ippack { IPv4=1, IPv6Bytes=2, IPv6Shorts=3, IPV6Ints=4 };
>>We need to define a single canonical form of ipv6 address. it's up to the
>>endpoints to translate whatever their in6_addr is to/from that form. Other
>>than that, this is the right idea.
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> Amen. Long form, please.

all of those are different representations of the same number of
bytes. so, "long form" means you'd like one of the 3 options already
here?

if you'd like a literal mapping of the colon-separated octet-sets to
array elements, you'd be suggesting the array IPv6Shorts in this
proposal. that's fine with me too.




-- 
Derrick