eui48 into the standard library for rust?

[stephanbuys]

Hi @abaumhauer,

Have you considered creating an RFC (I could assist) to get this work merged into the rust standard library? I find it surprising that std::net only caters for IP addresses, even though anyone doing anything remotely serious with networking would probably also be interested in Mac addresses?

For example, diesel recently added support for Postgres' MAC address data type, but they implemented it as a simple [u8; 6]. Having interoperability between crates by using a standardised type might be quite awesome.

Cheers,

[abaumhauer]

I would be interested, can't say that I would know where to begin with the RFC process. I'd like to see much better support for all networking in the standard library. I would appreciate any help you're willing to give. Let me know where we should start.

[stephanbuys]

Hi @abaumhauer, rust-lang/rfcs#2082 - lets hope it gets somewhere.

[abaumhauer]

I would be willing to write the implementation of EUI64. I've looked at it, and it's just the extended format for creating IPv6 addresses given a prefix /64 and generating the lower /64 from the EUI48.Thanks for putting the RFC up.On Jul 26, 2017 3:52 AM, Stephan Buys <[email protected]> wrote:Hi @abaumhauer, rust-lang/rfcs#2082 - lets hope it gets somewhere. —You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[stephanbuys]

I think based on the feedback and this announcement: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-http-crate/12123, it is probably better to try polish this crate to conform to the same Lib-Blitz goals to provide a stable/1.0 version of this data type. I'm happy to then try and lobby other crates/users to see if we can get this crate adopted (and solicit some feedback). Having EUI64 completed would be cool too.

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