Re: [Cbor] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-cbor-network-addresses-09: (with COMMENT)

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 05 October 2021 17:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-cbor-network-addresses-09: (with COMMENT)
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opened as issue:
https://github.com/cbor-wg/cbor-network-address/issues/11

Benjamin Kaduk via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
    > NITS

    > Section 3.2

    > 54([h'20010db81234DEEDBEEFCAFEFACEFEED', 56])

    > DEADBEEF (rather than DEEDBEEF) is in somewhat common usage as a pattern
    > for indicating "tainted" memory in various sanitizer codes...


Eric asks:

-- Section 3.2 --
Is there any reason why part of the IPv6 is in lowercase (as in RFC 5952) and
the other part in uppercase ? This is confusing to the reader (even if
hexadecimal numbers are obviously case insensitive).

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
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