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Re: [netmod] 6021 ipv4-prefix

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 26 April 2019 17:30 UTC

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 19:30:14 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] 6021 ipv4-prefix
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 04:55:02PM +0000, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
> Hi Juergen, 
> 
> I must admit that I think this is the worst possible outcome. Independent of the original intent, at a high level it is just not a good idea to accept the non-canonical prefix format and return the canonical format. 
>

So you propose to deprecate the definitions and create new ones?
Otherwise, I can't follow why a clarification can be the worst
possible outcome.

Note that we do have different lexical representations this in several
other places. We accept +17 to mean 17 (Section 9.1 of RFC 7950.)

/js

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