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

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

Implemented != ratified in the protocol (specification).

There are probably code bases which have nothing to do with Dave Mills'.

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Jean-François 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
> 
> 

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