Re: WG ACTION: 2 weeks to discuss [LL58] Duplicate inconsistent routable address definition
"Philip Nye" <[email protected]> Fri, 7 May 2004 11:47:37 -0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.zeroconf |
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| Organization | Engineering Arts |
| Message-ID | <019501c43429$18598540$131010ac@aldebaran> |
> Section 1.9 duplicates (but not entirely agrees with) Section 1.2. Stuart is right that there is an issue and in fact the definition of 1.9 is better than that of 1.2. I agree with the proposed change and the additional modification in Stuarts subsequent email: Replace This document uses the term "routable address" to refer to all unicast IPv4 addresses outside the 169.254/16 prefix, including global addresses and private addresses such as Net 10/8 [RFC1918], all of which may be forwarded via routers. with This document uses the term "routable address" to refer to all valid unicast IPv4 addresses outside the 169.254/16 prefix that may be forwarded via routers. This includes all global IP addresses and private addresses such as Net 10/8 [RFC1918], but not loopback addresses such as 127.0.0.1 Philip