IPv6 Address/Mask Notation
draft-lubashev-ipv6-addr-mask-00
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| Authors | Igor Lubashev , Erik Nygren | ||
| Last updated | 2017-09-27 (Latest revision 2017-03-26) | ||
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Abstract
With significantly longer IPv6 address prefixes assigned to ISPs, operators sometimes find opportunities to assign special meaning to lower-order bit patterns. Often, these bit patterns cannot be expressed as an address prefix. This RFC introduces IPv6 Address/Mask notation that allows one to express address groupings beyond "all addresses that share a single prefix". The notation is similar to the IPv4 Address/Mask notation in its expressiveness, but its syntax is derived from the traditional Address/Prefix-length notation. The traditional Address/Prefix- length notation is a special case of the Address/Mask notation. For example, using this notation, both 2001:db8::/32 and 2001:db8::/ ffff:ffff:: have the same meaning. However, the following requires the new notation: 2001:db8::1234/ffff:ffff::ffff or, equivalently, 2001:db8::1234/32+::ffff.
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