Elwell, John wrote:
" 1. In some cases, especially those dealing with third party call
control (see Section 4.2 of [12]), there arises a need to specify the
IPv6 equivalent of the IPv4 unspecified address (0.0.0.0) in the SDP
offer. For this, IPv6 implementations MUST use a domain name within
the .invalid DNS top-level domain instead of using the IPv6
unspecified address (i.e., ::)."
Can somebody recall the reason for this? Both "0.0.0.0" and "::" mean
"unspecified" in their respective IP versions.
John: Right; so I went back to my email archives to when
Gonzalo and I had a conversation about this (on April 27, 2006.)
We favored an .invalid over :: because the Application folks had
indicated this to be their preference in the past. For IPv4,
0.0.0.0 was supported for backwards compatibility, but it appears
that a move to IPv6 can be handled cleanly with using only .invalid
instead of having two alternative solutions.
Thanks,
- vijay
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