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

[Matt W. Benjamin]

Hi,

I am probably misunderstanding something, but is it the case that the address types of the future problem is the same one addressed by RFC 5665?  If so, would it be applicable?

Matt

----- "Steve Simmons" <scs@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> 
> > Treat it as an opaque vector.  An IPv6 address is not actually an
> array of 16- or 32-bit integers, and treating it that way means you're
> going to have to jump through hoops to get the byte order right when
> local byte order is not the same as network order.  Better to just
> treat the whole thing as an opaque bitstring, which is what it is.

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