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Re: question about net address




On 19/3/23 19:29, Jeremy Ardley wrote:

In this case of the /24 it gave an answer I expected. I imagine it will take a trawl of the RFC and then of actual implementations to find out for sure.

The best description of the AI is it is informative but not authorative.

Checking the RFC. To my reading the final stanza is not checked

" The <ip> is compared to the given network. If CIDR prefix length

   high-order bits match, the mechanism matches."

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7208#section-5.6

So in this case AI got it right.

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Jeremy
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