On 2/15/2012 1:10 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
The problem with variable-length addressing that, in practice, one needs to specify a maximum length.
In some practical terms, perhaps, but there are extensibility schemes that allow the payload (addressing bits, in this case, to go on forever, in theoretical terms.
> The result, therefore, is that you don't
have variable-length addresses at all but rather fixed-length addresses with a shorthand encoding for unused bits.
For most variable-length schemes, yes, but not all. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf