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Re: a draft about on-link and subnet prefixes

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Tue, 14 March 2017 12:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: a draft about on-link and subnet prefixes
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From: Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>
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Le 14/03/2017 à 13:48, Lorenzo Colitti a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:26 PM, <sthaug@nethelp.no
> <mailto:sthaug@nethelp.no>> wrote:
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>     Could an IPv6 subnet be defined *without esoteric examples*?
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>     If not - maybe the IPv6 subnet concept is too complex to be useful?
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> Let's go back to IPv4, it's easy to understand.

Not that either.

Simpler is better.  If simpler could only be other-than-64...

Alex

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