Re: [netmod] rfc6991bis: loopback addresses

Kent Watsen <kent@watsen.net> Thu, 30 July 2020 20:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] rfc6991bis: loopback addresses
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> Thanks for pointing to the definitions in draft-nainar-mpls-lsp-ping-yang.
> With that, your request is relatively clear now

Looking at draft-nainar-mpls-lsp-ping-yang, the proposal is a “typedef” that constrains inet:ipv[46]-address so that it can only contain loopback address values.


> and the question the WG
> needs to answer is whether these types are common enough to warrant being
> part of inet-types, i.e., are there any other places where these types
> may be useful?

I don’t think so, but I’m not a routing person.


> /js

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