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Re: [v6ops] Routers are hosts too!

"Jeff McAdams" <jeffm@iglou.com> Fri, 08 January 2016 14:35 UTC

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> As such, a memory-savvy and reduced clock computer Host may benefit from
> not implementing longest-match and still connect to the Internet.

...

> I wanted to say that a Host - as defined in RFC - does not implement
> longest-match.

> A host as people call a laptop, a smartphone or a tablet does implement
> it though.

So, basically, you're saying that, to at least a vanishingly small
rounding error, there are no "RFC Hosts" on the Internet today.

So what's your point?

-- 
Jeff

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