Mark,
On 2009-05-15 12:11, Mark Andrews wrote:
...
>
> [] is a kludge to get around protocols that had ":" already
> embedded as a token seperator.
>
> ISC looked at this over 10 years ago when we were developing
> BIND 9 and went with <address>#<port> where address can
> have a scope identifier %scope.
If we could rewrite history
a) TimBL would not have relied on semantics to distinguish
names from addresses in URIs
b) IPNGWG would have chosen a different separator than :
but I think we can't rewrite history. We had this discussion
prior to RFC3732 iirc.
Brian
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