Re: Documentation prefix notation for a /56

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Mon, 30 October 2017 15:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: Documentation prefix notation for a /56
To: David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu>
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Le 30/10/2017 à 14:57, David Farmer a écrit :
> 
> 
> 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?

Alex

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