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Architecture, interface, and implementation drafts for the definition of an abstract API for IETF TAPS
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Is "IP Address" scoped? (section 1) #1260

Closed mwelzl closed 10 months ago

mwelzl commented 1 year ago

From the review by Éric Vyncke:

Also Section 1:

Is IP Address scoped ? E.g., fe80::1%eth0 Can it be unicast, anycast, multicast ? Even if section 6.1 is about this issue, it may be worth already telling the readers.

philsbln commented 1 year ago

Every IPv6 address is scoped by RFC4007 / RFC4291, while scope is orthogonal to being unicast/anycast/multicast. Which scope and whether it is unicast/multicast/anycast is defined in the ipv6-address-space IANA registry and the ipv6-anycast-addresses IANA registry

If the Scope is not Global, there might be a zone-id to select the zone (oo-programmers would call it instance) of the scope.

Does it really make sense to make a summary of the above in the API?

tfpauly commented 10 months ago

Propose to close without action.