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From: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
To: Olle Jarnefors <ojarnef@admin.kth.se>
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Olle,
the problem is that it seems many implementors implemented address
parsing from the 821 definition, not the 822 definition.
The 822 definition allows *only* a dotted quad.

         Harald A