Re: Documentation prefix notation for a /56

David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu> Mon, 30 October 2017 18:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: Documentation prefix notation for a /56
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Alexandre Petrescu <
alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Le 30/10/2017 à 14:57, David Farmer a écrit :
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>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 7:14 AM, Alexandre Petrescu <
>> alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com <mailto:alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     What documentation prefix notation should I use when writing about a
>>     /56 prefix in an Internet Draft?
>>
>>     Currently I use 2001:db8:XYZU:TWQR::/56, but it seems too long.
>>
>>     Could I use 2001:db8:XYZU:TW::/56?  It does not seem correct to me.
>>
>> 2001:db8:XYZU:TW00::/56 would be the normal way to denote such a prefix.
>>
>
> Would 2001:db8:XYZU:TWFF::/56 also be normal?
>

That is not the normalized representation for a prefix, the normalized
representation is to have zeros for all the bit right of the prefix
boundary.


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