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Re: RFC 5952, the errata, and real-world usage

Seiichi Kawamura <kawamucho@mesh.ad.jp> Wed, 30 May 2012 01:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: RFC 5952, the errata, and real-world usage
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After the errata was posted, there was a short discussion on
6man about this and comments were made that lower case was a
WG decision and it stands. My apologies for forgetting to
update the status.

Regards,
Seiichi

(2012/05/30 9:37), Randy Bush wrote:
>> Next thing you know, I'm going along based on this recollection, I
>> look up RFC 5952, and I notice there's now an "errata" associated with
>> it. Would that errata be about some grammatical minutiae? Nope. It's
>> specifically to switch back to upper case hex representation!
> 
> there is a lesson here
> 
> randy
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