IPv6 Netowrk Device Numbering BP

Fred Baker (fred) fred at cisco.com
Sat Nov 3 20:44:19 UTC 2012


On Nov 1, 2012, at 8:20 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote:

> We should better introduce partially decimal format for
> IPv6 addresses or, better, avoid IPv6 entirely.

With respect, it is already possible to use the decimal subset if you wish. For example, you could write

    2001:dba::192:168:2:1

It wouldn't be very dense, but EID density wasn't the objective.



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