On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:22:40PM +0100, Zefram wrote:

> I specifically reject the cut&paste argument in favour
> of using unencoded "%": this is a sufficiently rare situation that
> convenience really doesn't matter.

Users are extremly unlikely to appreciate the fact that non-global 
IPv6 addresses look different in URIs than everywhere else. URIs 
are part of the user interface - I think we win in the long run 
by simplifying the user interface by being consistent.

If scoped addresses are such a rare thing, do not bother to solve the
problem. If it is true however that scoped addresses may show up to
reach a primary configuration as someone else said, we better make
things consistent and convenient to use. (The other option is to
standardize on "_" or something else and let the implementations
silently accept "%" as well since that makes users happy and reduces
the number of support questions. ;-)

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder               International University Bremen
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