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Re: [Cbor] CBOR tags for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and prefixes

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 29 January 2021 17:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] CBOR tags for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and prefixes
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Christian Amsüss <christian@amsuess.com> wrote:
    >> I was not satisfied with the semantics of tag 260 and 261.

    > Have there been positive experiences in the group with tag 260?

    > In particular, I'm thinking of draft-ietf-core-href which, for the
    > payload of its host.ip production, uses the same length dispatch
    > between IPv4 and IPv6 (in an untagged form).

A complaint is that this requires 8 zero bytes when describing a typical /64
prefix.

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