Re: question about net address
On Sun 19 Mar 2023 at 19:36:47 (+0800), Jeremy Ardley wrote:
> 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.
I don't follow. What's your "final stanza" referring to, and
what's wrong with the RFC in connection with it?
Cheers,
David.
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