Re: draft-ietf-ngtrans-ipv4survey-02.txt

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

-- mercredi, septembre 18, 2002 23:32:17 +0300 Pekka Savola 
<pekkas@netcore.fi> wrote/a écrit:

> Implemented != ratified in the protocol (specification).
>
> There are probably code bases which have nothing to do with Dave Mills'.
you are right. You are suggesting which process?

Marc.

> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Jean-François Boudreault wrote:
> > > Some reference to that change (to use a hash of a part of the address,
> > > I recall) should be there too.  Is there other than the expired I-D?
> > > Has the change in the protocol been ratified or in the process of
> > > being done so?
> >
> > The change has been implemented by ntp dev team and should be ratified
> > in the  protocol. From a conversation with Dave Mills :
> >
> > "John Hay implemented the latest, which amounts to the first 32 bits of
> > an MD5 hash of the IPv6 address."
> >
> > And you can see in NTP cvs ChangeLog that it as been implemented on
> > 2002-07-29  :
> >
> > http://ntp.bkbits.net:8080/ntp-dev/cset@1.884?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-
> > 9M
> --
> Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
> Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
> Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords


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