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Re: [netmod] question regarding IPv6 address format / canonical

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 07 December 2018 09:11 UTC

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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:11:44 +0100
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] question regarding IPv6 address format / canonical
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 09:51:53AM +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > 
> > It is the value that the server (conceptually) uses internally. See sec. 9.1 in
> > RFC 7950.
> 
> Ok, so if the server doesn't re-format and always uses string in the
> canonical format, that's a clear bug?
>

Yes. How the server does things internally does not matter but
comparisons must conceptually use the canonical format (and this is
why it is so important to define the canonical representation in type
definitions).

/js

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