[c-nsp] IOS - ipv6 uppercase in config - why ?

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Jan 6 07:08:01 EST 2011


On 06/01/11 11:58, Brandon Daly wrote:
>
> Have you read the Errata for RFC5952?  I'm fairly certain it now says that
> the digits a-f must be uppercase, except where user derived, though I think
> this is a fairly recent correction.

That's an absolutely terrible errata: "old-skool assemblers didn't 
accept lower-case hex digits, neither should we, stop being lazy and hit 
the shift key". I seriously hope it doesn't make it in on those grounds 
(I am agnostic on the upper/lower issue per-se, but that's a terrible 
rationale).


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