>>>>> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:49:00 -0500, 
>>>>> Suresh Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>   I was confused by the same inconsistency couple of years ago and a
> thread resulting from my question failed to clarify the choice. I guess
> it is something we have to live with. You can look at this thread.

> http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/ipng/msg10039.html

Thanks for the pointer.  I now understand this was indeed discussed
before.  I agree we should live with the confusing choice as a
"de-facto standard" rather than tweaking the specification once again.

But...at the risk of causing unnecessary discussion, I wonder whether
we can clarify this point in the RFC based on addr-arch-v4 just saying
the method shown in appendix A actually is inconsistent with the IEEE
standard but the IETF has decided to accept it.  I personally think
this can be done as a part of final editorial work with RFC editor
before publication.  What do others think?

                                        JINMEI, Tatuya
                                        Communication Platform Lab.
                                        Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
                                        [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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