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Comment by ninkendo

4 days ago

… such as?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338674

  • That's a post about invalid things that are not IPv6 addresses.

    In IPv6 addresses, :: is all zeroes and there's no ambiguity.

  • I am not clear what your point is. The parent's point stands. A double colon only represents zeros (that were compressed and are not displayed).

    Your link does not show different addresses from a valid compression, it shows different addresses from an invalid compression. The link examples what we don't do.

    Conversely, if we compress the expanded addresses in your link, we will get 2 different compressed addresses.