>>>>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:54:26 -0400,
>>>>> Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> "I don't know. A year ago, I would have said "no", but with
> documents on the IESG agenda like draft-black-snmp-uri-08.txt, I am
> taking a new view of URIs. This document defines a URI syntax that
> can be used for access to SNMP objects, and one of the use cases
> includes having a local SNMP manager that is accessed through a URI
> -- the URI then being translated into an SNMP request that is sent to
> the agent via SNMP.
> So, URIs can, effectively, be used as a programmatic interface to
> other applications running on the local system. In that sort of
> case, I think we very well might need to include scoped addresses in
> URIs. And, IMO, it would be better to have a standard way to do this
> than to live in a world where folks just insert an unencoded % and
> some parsers pass it through cleanly, others escape it for you and
> still others return an error -- which is how the current behaviour of
> URI parsers has been described in this thread."
In case I misunderstood the scenario, please let me check. Are you
talking about a scenario where a "client" passes a URI to an SNMP
manager including an IPv6 link-local address with a zone ID for the
client, and the manager then parses the URI and sends a corresponding
SNMP request? If so, it's an unintended (or even prohibited) usage
in the current IPv6 scoped address architecture due to the "locality"
reason Erik pointed out.
Of course,
- whether it's worth standardizing the URI notation with zone IDs for
a pure local usage is a separate question.
- whether we should even more explicitly prohibit such usage (as Pekka
indicated) is also a separate issue.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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