On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:30:04AM +0100, Manuel Valente wrote:
> Discussion: There are already a few modules which allow IP address
> manipulation and calculus - Net::IPv4Addr and NetAddr::IP are two such
> modules. At RIPE-NCC, we felt that these modules did not cover all the
> functionality that we needed for manipulation of IP addresses. More
> importantly, none of these modules allowed manipulation of IPv6
> addresses. The Net::IP module tries to answer to these problems and also
> include the functionality present in the other modules.
If address manipulation is the purpose of the module, wouldn't Net::IPaddr
or Net::IPv6Addr be a better name?
-- Johan
