Re: [tor-dev] Sanitizing IPv6 addresses in bridge descriptors

Hi,

On Jan 10, 2012, at 22:36, Linus Nordberg wrote:

Karsten Loesing karsten.loesing@gmx.net wrote Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:45:03 +0100:

| - Write 3 bytes of the sanitized IPv6 address in [::] notation. We're | writing sanitized IPv4 addresses as 10.x.x.x. Is there a counterpart | for IPv6 addresses? It should be obvious that these are "private" | addresses, but I'd like to keep the notation unchanged to keep parsing | tools simple.

RFC 3849 defines the prefix 2001:DB8::/32 as being reserved for documentation. That should be fine for this.

The documentation prefix is for just that, use in documentation :)

ULA (RFC4193) is actually closer to the 10/8 (RFC1918) addresses that you use for IPv4.

Alex